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  1. 2010
    Indian Health Care Improvement Act permanently renewed
    The cornerstone legal authority for the provision of health care to American Indians and Alaska Natives ...
  2. 2009
    Day after Thanksgiving named Native American Heritage Day
    President Barack Obama signs “The Native American Heritage Day Resolution 2009,” designating the Friday ...
  3. 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 ...
  4. 2009
    Many reservation homes lack clean drinking water
    Safe drinking water and sanitary sewage disposal are unavailable in 13 percent of American Indian/Alaska ...
  5. 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. ...
  6. 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- ...
  7. 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 ...
  8. 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 ...
  9. 2005
    U.S. spends more on health care for prisoners than Indians
    Ron His Horse is Thunder, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, tells the U.S. Senate Indian Affairs ...
  10. 2004
    The National Museum of the American Indian opens
    On September 21, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian opens to the public to celebrate ...
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