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Native American Communities Have the Highest Suicide Rates, Yet Interventions Are Scarce

By Cheryl Platzman Weinstock, KFF Health News If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing or texting “988.” To reach the Native and Strong Lifeline, call “988” and press 4. Amanda MorningStar has watched her children

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Food Sovereignty Movement Sprouts as Bison Return to Indigenous Communities

By Jim Robbins BOZEMAN, Mont. — Behind American Indian Hall on the Montana State University campus, ancient life is growing. Six-foot-tall corn plants tower over large green squash and black-and-yellow sunflowers. Around the perimeter, stalks of sweetgrass grow. The seeds for some of these plants grew for millennia in Native Americans’