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Native American students are underrepresented in higher education at the bachelor's, master's and doctoral levels. [61] The recruitment and retention of Native American students at a university level is a major issue. [56] Native American professors are also underrepresented; they make up less than one percent of higher education faculty. [65]
A 2022 study revealed that Native American college students experienced the greatest increase of depression and anxiety between 2013 and 2021 out of all ethnic and racial groups. [131] According to a 2023 study, a strong sense of ethnic identity can reduce the negative emotional impact of historical loss on Native American college students. [132]
Native American people frequently disappear in police jurisdictions off tribal land, leading to confusion over who has responsibility for a case, according to the law enforcement officials Reuters ...
The Supreme Court ruled in 1978 that tribal courts do not have inherent criminal jurisdiction over people who aren’t Native American, and that only Congress can assign that jurisdiction.
Native American tribal populations have an average life expectancy of about 65 years, nearly 11 years less than the U.S. as a whole. Attorney Adam Unikowsky, who represented the Northern Arapaho ...
This is a list of U.S. Supreme Court cases involving Native American Tribes.Included in the list are Supreme Court cases that have a major component that deals with the relationship between tribes, between a governmental entity and tribes, tribal sovereignty, tribal rights (including property, hunting, fishing, religion, etc.) and actions involving members of tribes.
The lifeline for and by Native American and Alaska Native people is the first of its kind in the nation, and is integrated into the state's 988 suicide and crisis lifeline. Mariah Thompson is a ...
Native American reservation inequality underlies a range of societal issues that affect the lives of Native American populations residing on reservations in the United States. About one third of the Native American population, about 700,000 people, lives on an Indian Reservation in the United States. [ 1 ]