It’s National Native American Heritage Month: President Issues Proclamation

The White House
11/1/16
As the First Americans, Native Americans have helped shape the future of the United States through every turn of our history...

Still Loving Obamacare, Elders, and New Round of Endorsements

Mark Trahant
10/28/16
TRAHANT REPORTS —Twelve days and counting. And the election issue once again is the Affordable Care Act...

On My Final White House Tribal Nations Conference

President Barack Obama
9/30/16

This week, I hosted my eighth and final White House Tribal Nations Conference as President, a tradition we started in 2009 to create a platform for people across many tribes to be heard....

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Rep. Sharon Clahchischilliage, Navajo, represents San Juan County in the New Mexico Legislature. She is one of at least fourteen Republican Native Americans who are running for state or federal office this year.

Native American Republicans Make Their Case to Voters

Mark Trahant
8/28/16
TRAHANT REPORTS —A question I am often asked: Are American Indians and Alaska Natives only Democrats? Of course not...

Racial Unrest: Elections 2016 Present Trouble Ahead

Charles Trimble
7/19/16

It is only the grandmas and grandpas in Indian country that may have any memories of the violent revolutionary times of the 1960s and early 1970s; but even many of them have no personal recollections, because all the rioting and destructio...

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‘Where you can legally kill an Indian’: Winnebago Treasurer on IHS Hospitals

Tanya H. Lee
7/15/16
People are dying...

Paul Ryan’s Call for Indian Health ‘Choices’ Would Be a Disaster

Mark Trahant
6/25/16
TRAHANT REPORTS —Every once in a while an idea is floated that’s so bad, you wonder, “what were they thinking?” Or smoking? Today is such a day...
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Report Confirms: Serious Racial Inequities in Health and Health Care Continue

Tanya H. Lee
5/6/16
In 1985, a government report for the first time documented disparities in health and mortality between black and other minority groups in the U.S. and whites...

New IHS Head Focused on Quality, Accountability

Tanya H. Lee
4/25/16
Mary L. Smith, Cherokee, took over as principal deputy director of the Indian Health Service in March, succeeding Robert McSwain, North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians...

Is It Enough? Senate Committee Reviews Indian Country Budget

Tanya H. Lee
3/16/16
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs didn’t hear much that was surprising during a March 9 oversight hearing on President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2017 budget proposal...

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