Native Americans are Dying Too Young

In the quiet stretches of South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation, Katherine Goodlow, a 20-year-old member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, holds Coco the puppy outside her grandmother's home—a home marked by loss far beyond its walls. By her young age, Goodlow has lost friends and family to an array of preventable tragedies—from suicide to car crashes to illness—painting a stark portrait of a deeper health crisis affecting Native Americans across the United States.