Indian Country Today is featuring Native Americans across the country during the month of November with #NativeIn2019

Kokums say: ‘We never scream shut the music off, cause we hear your message and like your beats’

Waiora Alo-Reeder attends ‘Te Kōhanga Reo O Ngā Mokopuna’ where all education is delivered in te reo Māori / the Māori language, thus his show of Māori pride

Robert Jimmy explains how, after the government did little to treat his PTSD, he found healing through the love of his family and the teachings of the Native American Church

Pituaq Okalik graduated from kindergarten in the Rankin Inlet this June

Native founders of Ginew denim, Erik Brodt and Amanda Bruegl are Native physicians by day, Native denim designers by … the other day

Vera Starbard's TV moment: Molly talks to her mom, who is simply sitting at a table, beading an Athabascan flower design onto hide. The beading isn’t even remarked on, but I felt a thrill to the system. I could feel the beads beneath my own hands. I could see that design on a dozen dresses at an Anchorage gathering. I could smell the hide beneath her hands.

There are countless Indigenous women that are changing lives all around the globe. To celebrate a fraction of their achievements, we’re featuring 10 of them