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1922Radio connects remote Alaska villages to medical adviceThe U.S. Signal Corps establishes a radio network to link Alaska Native villages with doctors and nurses ...- 1923Tuberculosis identical among patients of different racesThe National Tuberculosis Association issues a paper stating that “tuberculosis attacks without racial ...
1924American Indians granted U.S. citizenshipInspired by the high rate of American Indian enlistment during World War I, President Calvin Coolidge ...- 1924Medical division established in Office of Indian AffairsThe Office of Indian Affairs creates a separate medical division to administer the growing number of ...
1924Professional nurses hired for reservationsThe Office of Indian Affairs begins hiring professional field nurses to care for Native peoples on reservations.- 1925American Indian TB deaths outpace general populationTuberculosis mortality in 1925 is 87 deaths per 100,000 in the U.S., in general. Among American Indians ...
- 1927Clean water, sewers needed on most reservationsAfter a century of the federal government moving American Indians onto reservations with inadequate ...
- 1928Government underreports American Indian deathsLead investigator Lewis Meriam publishes The Problem of Indian Administration , documenting the failure ...
- 1931Alaska Native health care transferred to U.S. Office of Indian AffairsThe U.S. Office of Indian Affairs takes over responsibility for Alaska Native health care from the Territory ...
1934Commissioner calls for religious freedom for American IndiansCommissioner of Indian Affairs, John Collier, issues a circular on American Indian religious freedom, ...
