AMA Journal of Ethics

This watercolor painting looks to our 20th-century ancestors who fought to establish their, and many of our, voting rights.

This article features a digital photo painting of a clinician during COVID-19.

All of us are called upon to support candidates who personify respect, compassion, and empathy if we hope to realize a more fair and just future.

Tribal-university partnerships are fewer in education than in research, but just as important for expanding opportunity and improving health infrastructure.

Researchers and scholars should co-develop research with Indigenous peoples to ensure respect for culture, language, and ways of knowing.

Concepts of “governance,” “trust,” and “culture” can help strengthen research partnerships, honor tribal sovereign authority, counter histories of opportunism, and recognize alternative ways of knowing.

This drawing considers masks’ transformation from an evidence-based public health measure to a political symbol during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.

Over 100 million people in the pre-Columbian Americas were Indigenous. In the 2010 US Census, 5.2 million people in the US identified as Indigenous. By this and other accounts, American Indians' and Alaska Natives' well-being has been imperiled for over 500 years.

Most clinicians receive little training in integrating Native healing into allopathic practice, which undermines patients’ autonomy and cultural values.