The Billion-Dollar Dilemma: Funding Indian Health in the Trump Era

Mark Trahant
11/26/16
TRAHANT REPORTS — A few years ago I had a chance to ask President George Bush what he thought about tribal sovereignty in the 21st century...

Native Lives at Stake: IHS Unveils Plan to Improve Medical Care

Tanya H. Lee
11/18/16
The Indian Health Service has a new plan to provide high-quality, patient-centered, safe medical care to the 2.2 million American Indians and Alaska Native it serves...

Combating Meth Use, Suicide Among AIAN Youth

Tanya H. Lee
10/18/16
The Indian Health Service has almost doubled the number of grants for meth and suicide prevention among youth in American Indian communities with the announcement of 42 new awards ...

‘A Warrior of the People’: First American Indian Doctor Was a Woman

Tanya H. Lee
10/3/16
Joe Starita’s third book, “ A Warrior of the People ,” is the masterful depiction of an American Indian woman and the times and cultures she negotiated so brilliantly to bring a ne...

Research Fraud: Why We Didn’t Know Sugar Can Cause Heart Disease

Tanya H. Lee
9/28/16
A fraud perpetrated by the sugar industry on the medical community has impacted the health of American Indians and Alaska Natives for nearly half a century...

John McCain Visits Navajo Country to Discuss ‘Critical Issues’

Alysa Landry
9/19/16
U.S. Senator John McCain made some hefty promises Friday when he met with Navajo leaders during a roundtable discussion in St. Michaels, Arizona...
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...

When Man Changes the Land, It Is Changed Forever

Jon Eagle Sr.
8/27/16

Long ago our ancestors knew the Cannon Ball River as Inyan Wakan Kagapi Wakpa, "River where the sacred stones are made," and they knew the Missouri River as Mni Sose, "Turbulant Water." At the confluence of where those two rivers met was a great whirlpool that created perfectly round stones that...

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9 Laws and Programs Passed for Indians After the Occupation of Alcatraz

Dr. Dean Chavers
7/24/16
As of 1969, Congress had passed 5,000 laws for Indians...
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Is Shoddy Cancer Care for Natives a Treaty Violation?

ICTMN Staff
7/20/16
A recent Newsweek feature begins with a well-known Indian country adage, “Don’t get sick after June.” This is because by then the under-funded Indian Health Service has run out of ...

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