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1968 Government trains midwives for remote villages Congress establishes the Alaska Community Health Aide Program to train health workers for remote villages ... |
1973 Bans on Native Hawaiian healing traditions overturned Native Hawaiian healers, known as kahuna , are again permitted to practice legally. The growing Native ... |
1975 New medical school graduates Native Hawaiians Four Native Hawaiians graduate in the first class of the John A. Burns Medical School, University of ... |
1975 Native American medical students organize The Association of Native American Medical Students, an organization representing Native American graduate ... |
1977 Safe Drinking Water program established in Hawai‘i The State of Hawai‘i starts a program to ensure safe drinking water. ... Medicine Ways ... Hawai‘i |
1985 Study finds Native Hawaiian healing practices still important The Native Hawaiian Health Research Consortium under ALU LIKE releases its “E Ola Mau” (“Native Hawaiian ... |
1986 Native Hawaiian and Western-trained health professionals ally Dr. Richard Kekuni Blaisdell starts the organization E Ola Mau, later incorporated under its first president, ... |
1988 Association of Native Hawaiian Physicians is established The ‘Ahahui o na Kauka, the Association of Native Hawaiian Physicians, is established. Today there are ... |
1991 Waianae Diet promotes Native Hawaiian culture, well-being The Waianae Diet is based on the traditional Hawaiian diet, which is high in complex carbohydrates and ... |
1992 Native woman diagnosed with HIV becomes educator Lisa Tiger, Muscogee Creek/Seminole/Cherokee, is diagnosed with HIV. She traces the infection to a boyfriend ... |