The first Native American to arrive in Europe may have been a woman brought to Iceland by the Vikings more than 1,000 years ago, a study by Spanish and Icelandic researchers suggests. The findings ...

One of Guyana’s smallest Amerindian villages is waging a monumental battle that could decide the amount of control that thousands of indigenous people have over their land in remote parts of this ...

In his letter of March 23 in SN captioned ‘Amerindians should press for revision of the Amerindian Act,’ Mr Patrick Fitzpatrick commented on problems involving governance in Amerindian communities. I ...

The Umana Yana, ironically destroyed by fire during Guyana’s celebration of Amerindian Heritage Month, was a major visible symbol of Amerindian culture in the city. As the nation continues in its ...

Previous studies have demonstrated that in admixed populations, West African ancestry is associated with an increased prevalence of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). In the current study, the effect ...

Anthropologists have found high levels of beneficial omega-3 fatty acids in the breast milk of economically impoverished Amerindian woman as compared to women in the United States. Working with ...

Dyslipidemia is a highly prevalent (53%) 1 cardiovascular risk factor in the United States that will drastically increase medical and economic burdens in the subsequent decades if prevention and ...