One of women’s hoops’ rising stars, a KC native, is ready to play closer to home

The one-time top-ranked basketball guard from Kansas City transferred to Iowa State from Arizona ahead of the 2025-26 ...

How Deb Haaland Became the First Native American Cabinet Secretary

In an exclusive excerpt from his new book We Survived the Night, Julian Brave Noisecat takes us inside the negotiations that ...
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Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint

KWETHLUK, Alaska (AP) — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire life as a midwife and a mother of 13. As the wife ...
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Indigenous women in Kansas are more likely to die during pregnancy. New doulas could help

Stephanne Rupnicki, left, teaches breastfeeding best practice to an Indigenous mom. Rupnicki is on the forefront of an effort to train Indigenous doulas to help curtail rising maternal mortality rates ...