How culture saves Sacramento’s Native American youth from suicide

Emma Hall’s reporting was undertaken as part of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2025 California Health Equity Fellowship. Learn more at centerforhealthjournalism.org.

Jordan Burkart learned pain at a young age.

She was placed in foster care at just three days old after Child Protective Services learned her parents were using drugs, she said. Though she was later adopted, she boomeranged between her birth and adoptive parents during her early childhood…

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