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“To me it’s almost whiplash going from Venice to what’s going on at the Smithsonian now,” Gibson says, referring to the public-private institution that includes the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.

She described learning family stories about Cherokee, Huron and Creek heritage in a 2004 memoir that was part of a book series on American Indian lives.

I was the first Indian comedian that big, and they wanted me to have the American Indian experience, but the Indians in the United States are the wealthiest minority in this country.

While any life saved from an overdose is a win, many were quick to highlight stark racial disparities in these statistics, with deaths still increasing among Black, Hispanic and American Indian and Alaska Native populations.

The Civil Rights, Chicano liberation, and American Indian movements of the 1960s, and new political engagement from Washington, D.C.