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- 1921Congress funds American Indian health careIn legislation commonly known as the Snyder Act, Congress authorizes funds for “the relief of distress ...
- 1923Pioneering Apsáalooke (Crow) nurse graduatesSusie Walking Bear Yellow graduates from the Boston City Hospital School of Nursing and returns to the ...
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.- 1924Federal campaign targets trachomaThe Office of Indian Affairs launches a campaign against trachoma, a serious bacterial eye infection ...
- 1927Clean water, sewers needed on most reservationsAfter a century of the federal government moving American Indians onto reservations with inadequate ...
1927Trachoma surgery proves too dangerousThe Office of Indian Affairs begins a national campaign in 1924 to eliminate the infectious eye disease ...- 1928Government underreports American Indian deathsLead investigator Lewis Meriam publishes The Problem of Indian Administration , documenting the failure ...
- 1929U.S. directs care to American Indian mothers and babiesThe Office of Indian Affairs establishes its first preventive medicine program, which emphasizes maternal ...
