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Keith M. Little: A Grandfather and Navajo Code Talker  

This Memorial Day, the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health honors the memory of Keith M. Little, a Navajo Code Talker, through the eyes of his granddaughter, Ashley Thacker.   Keith M. Little was one of approximately 400 Indigenous men who used their Native languages to send encrypted messages during World War II, a code that […]

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From CIH to the Clinic: Indigenous Young Women Blaze a Trail in Medicine 

Each May we celebrate our graduating students. Today we spotlight two who are graduating from the Center with plans to attend medical school. While American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) make up around 3% of the U.S. population, according to the Lancet they account for less than 0.4% of the active physician workforce. Recent data […]

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