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Violence faced by Indigenous people is not simply a decades-long problem; it is a 500-year problem that continues to pervade every Indigenous family, said Melissa Pope, chief judge of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi Tribal Court. She spoke Friday during a Grand Rapids event to create awareness for missing and murdered Indigenous people. […] The post Hundreds gather to march in Grand Rapids for missing and murdered Indigenous people appeared first on Michigan Advance.

Cases of missing and murdered indigenous people are believed to be underreported to law enforcement and media, advocates say.

New research finds that the death rate among Black youths soared by 37 percent, and among Native American youths by 22 percent, between 2014 and 2020, compared with less than 5 percent for white youths.

Levi Rickert's op-ed dissects the responses of Governors Noem and Whitmer to MMIP epidemic, offering poignant insights into the ongoing crisis. With a focus on the urgency of addressing Indigenous rights and safety, Rickert's analysis sheds light on the profound impact of MMIP on tribal communities.

In this issue of JAMA, Wolf et al found that during the period from 2019 to 2021, the US experienced the greatest increase in all-cause pediatric