Joseph Gone of Harvard University, a member of the Aaniiih Gros Ventre tribal nation of Montana, is co-author of the Lancet study that highlights the severity of suicides, drug overdoses and deaths from alcoholic liver disease in mid-life, also known as “deaths of despair,” and the impacts these deaths have on American Indian and Alaska Native communities compared to white communities. Gone spoke to NPR on the issue of “the invisibility, or, we might say, the erasure of indigenous presence, invisibility in those datasets.”