Read up on the latest sobering statistics about health outcomes among American Indians -- and the racial misclassification of death records that underestimates mortality rates. 

"While premature mortality rates decreased in blacks, Hispanics, and Asians and Pacific Islanders between 1999 and 2014, the rates increased among American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) and whites during the same time period. Between 2011 and 2014, AI/ANs had the highest premature mortality rates in the United States, driven mainly by accidental deaths—primarily drug overdoses—chronic liver disease and cirrhosis, and suicide...But experts say the real picture could be even worse for the 5.2 million people in the United States who identify as AI/AN. Their deaths are notoriously underreported due to racial misclassification on death certificates. An astounding 40% of AI/ANs who die are listed as a different race—usually white—on their death certificates by funeral home directors, according to a 2016 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)."