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  1. 1968
    Government trains midwives for remote villages
    Congress establishes the Alaska Community Health Aide Program to train health workers for remote villages ...
  2. 1973
    Bans on Native Hawaiian healing traditions overturned
    Native Hawaiian healers, known as kahuna , are again permitted to practice legally. The growing Native ...
  3. 1975
    New medical school graduates Native Hawaiians
    Four Native Hawaiians graduate in the first class of the John A. Burns Medical School, University of ...
  4. 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 ...
  5. 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, ...
  6. 1993
    Traditional Alaska Native midwives convene
    Chugachmiut, a 20-year-old nonprofit organization that works to advance the social, economic, and cultural ...
  7. 1997
    New hospital replaces 1950s IHS medical center in Anchorage
    The new Alaska Native Medical Center replaces the Anchorage Medical Center built by the Indian Health ...
  8. 1997
    Alaska Native consortium provides medical care, sanitation facilites
    The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, the largest tribal-run health care organization in the U. ...
  9. 2004
    University establishes department to promote Native Hawaiian health
    The University of Hawai‘i Board of Regents establishes the Department of Native Hawaiian Health as part ...
  10. 1975
    Native American medical students organize
    The Association of Native American Medical Students, an organization representing Native American graduate ...
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