The first time Elena Giacci (Diné) heard of forced sterilization, she was at a conference. It was 1994, and she had just ...

A bill currently moving through parliament would amend the criminal code to include forced or coerced sterilization procedures, classifying them as an act of aggravated assault that could be punished ...

Over a six-year period in the 1970s, physicians sterilized perhaps 25% of Native American women of childbearing age ...

Opinion Last year, in preparation for the United States’ 250th anniversary on July 4, 2026, President Donald Trump signed ...

New Mexico is taking on an investigation into the sterilization of Native women through coercion, deception and without ...

Suzette Brewer of the Cherokee Nation reflects on her long reporting journey, which investigated the widespread sterilization ...

Native American Women Sterilization Jean Whitehorse testifies about forced and coerced sterilization of Native American women at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on April 2019, ...

EDGEWOOD, N.M. (AP) — In the 1970s, the U.S. agency that provides health care to Native Americans sterilized thousands of women without their full and informed consent, depriving them of the ...

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New Mexico legislators approved a measure this week to have state agencies examine the history, scope and continuing impacts of forced and coerced sterilization by the Indian Health Service and other ...