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2010 Indian Health Care Improvement Act permanently renewed The cornerstone legal authority for the provision of health care to American Indians and Alaska Natives ... |
2009 Day after Thanksgiving named Native American Heritage Day President Barack Obama signs “The Native American Heritage Day Resolution 2009,” designating the Friday ... |
2009 Reservation clinics, hospitals overcrowded and in need of repair A budget shortfall has left more than 700 Indian Health Service (IHS) facilities scattered through 36 ... |
2009 Many reservation homes lack clean drinking water Safe drinking water and sanitary sewage disposal are unavailable in 13 percent of American Indian/Alaska ... |
2009 First woman chosen to head Indian Health Service President Barack Obama nominates Dr. Yvette Roubideaux to be the director of the Indian Health Service. ... |
2009 Lone Pine Paiute leader: ‘health care advances yet to reach American Indians’ Rachel A. Joseph, a past chairwoman of the Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone in California, does not seek re- ... |
2009 Class action settled over mismanagement of Indian accounts, lands American Indian landowners and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar reach a settlement in a long-running ... |
2009 H1N1 flu mortality four times higher among American Indians The 2009 H1N1 influenza virus infects American Indians and Alaska Natives, with overall death rates ... |
2008 800 American Indians repeat the ‘Longest Walk’ More than 800 participants from many Indian nations repeat the Longest Walk of 1978 to draw attention ... |
2007 Funding cuts for urban Indian health care put communites at risk The Urban Indian Health Commission, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., issues a comprehensive analytical ... |