Experts Call for Community-Based Health Care to Raise Indigenous Life Expectancy
Native Americans die an average of 14 years earlier than white Americans due to factors like poverty, racism and trauma.
Katherine Goodlow is only 20, but she has experienced enough to know that people around her are dying too young. Goodlow, a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, said she’s lost six friends and acquaintances to suicide, two to car crashes, and one to appendicitis. Four of her relatives died in their 30s or 40s, from causes such as liver failure and covid-19, she said. And she recently lost a 1...