Nathan Chasing Horse’s sentencing for sexual assaults against Indigenous women and girls has been pushed back by a week. A judge on Wednesday moved the hearing to March 18. The delay comes about a month after a Nevada jury convicted the “Dances With Wolves” actor on sexual abuse charges. Prosecutors say he used his status as a Lakota medicine man to target victims through ceremonies and promises of help. Jurors heard from three women. One said she was 14 when the abuse began. He faces at least 25 years. He also has charges pending in Canada.

In the 1970s, the agency that provides health care to Native Americans sterilized thousands of women without their full and informed consent. Decades later, the state of New Mexico is set to investigate a little known but troubling history that haunts Native families. New Mexico legislators approved a measure this week to have state agencies examine the history, scope and continuing impacts of forced and coerced sterilization by the Indian Health Service and other providers. Outside of a 1976 U.S. Government Accountability Office report, the federal government has never acknowledged this history.

The Trump administration’s revocation of a scientific finding that climate change is a danger to public health is likely to affect communities of color the most. Extensive research has found that Black, Latino, Indigenous and other racial and ethnic groups are more vulnerable to the health consequences from climate change than white people. The Environmental Protection Agency, in a 2021 report, concluded the same. That EPA report found, for example, that Black people were 40% more likely to live in places with the highest projected increases in deaths because of extreme heat driven by climate change.