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KTOO
March 10, 2018
Back in October, Sweeney's nomination was widely applauded around Alaska and among Native American groups. She's Inupiaq and an executive vice president of Arctic Slope Regional Corp. Sweeney also is one of the 13,000 shareholders in ASRC, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski said that stock seems toÃâà...
Alaska Dispatch News
March 10, 2018
WASHINGTON — Tara Sweeney, the first Alaska Native woman to be nominated to a federal position that requires Senate confirmation, is stuck in bureaucratic limbo because the Office of Government Ethics doesn't know what to do about her status as a Native corporation shareholder, according toÃâà...
Alaska Public Radio Network
March 9, 2018
Back in October, Sweeney's nomination was widely applauded around Alaska and among Native American groups. She's Inupiaq and an executive vice president of Arctic Slope Regional Corp. Sweeney is also one of the 13,000 shareholders in ASRC, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski says that stock seems toÃâà...
Wisconsin Gazette
March 9, 2018
When Dream Dance Steak, the high-end restaurant inside Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, hosts its annual Native American Heritage Dinner in ... from the Southwest, like different varieties of chili peppers, or salmon from Alaska and the Pacific Northwest were not familiar to Midwest and East Coast tribes.
Peninsula Daily News
March 8, 2018
TACOMA — The Jamestown S'Klallam, Port Gamble S'Klallam and Suquamish tribes are taking on pharmaceutical companies and drug distributors, claiming the companies flooded ... Native Americans and Alaskan Natives die from opioid overdoses at higher rates than any other ethnic group in the state.
Health Affairs (blog)
March 8, 2018
The Indian Health Service (IHS), which provides direct health care services to more than 40 percent of tribes and provides funding and support to ... the lives of American Indian and Alaska Native elders, in many cases serving as the hub of long-term services and supports for the tribe, the IHS's Finke says.
Joplin Globe
March 1, 2018
Weaver, a member of the Quapaw tribe, was recommended by U.S. Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., for the post that is part of the Department of Health and Human Services. Indian Health Services is responsible for providing personal and public health services to American Indians and Alaska Natives.
Chicago Tribune
February 28, 2018
A painting by David John from the Navajo Nation will be part of the Native American Art and Culture exhibit March 3 to March 17 at McCord Gallery and ... a high percentage of the Native Americans and the slaughter and decimation of the buffalo population which "was really the core of our cultural vitality.".
Civil Eats
February 26, 2018
While the overwhelming majority of farm operators in the U.S. are white, among farmers of color an estimated 30 percent are Native American or Alaska Native, and together they generate $3.3 billion in sales each year. But Native producers have little access to critically important resources such as credit,Ãâà...
UW Today
February 22, 2018
The adapted curriculum defines “group harm” as a risk for American Indian/Alaska Native communities, in which a tribe is identified by the public release of stigmatizing data regarding, say, substance use or at-risk behaviors for HIV. Similarly, the training points to the need to protect locations of research,Ãâà...
Voice of America
February 19, 2018
But Native American advocacy groups say far too little attention is focused on the issue of sexual violence against native women, which has been going ... Alaska Native women endure the highest rate of forced sexual assault and fall victim to domestic violence at a rate 10 times higher than anywhere elseÃâà...
Newstalkkgvo
February 17, 2018
The resolution honors the memory of Hanna Harris, a member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, who was murdered in July 2013. The resolution seeks to commemorate the lives of all missing and murdered American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls who have gone missing or been murdered.
U.S. News & World Report
February 17, 2018
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal tax overhaul passed in December is "completely unacceptable" to Native Americans, just another example of what can ... tribe, something I have noticed more and more in youth is the disastrous effects of the opioid epidemic," said Wheeler, a member of the Seneca tribe.
AJMC.com Managed Markets Network
February 11, 2018
Native Americans experience a variety of health determinants in their everyday lives, and agencies like the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium and the ... IHS is an agency under the HHS that offers affordable or free healthcare to members of the 567 federally recognized tribes in the United States.
Truth-Out
December 31, 1999
Two Native American tribes in North Carolina are among the groups seeking to join a court challenge to federal regulators' decision to approve the ... The 600-mile pipeline would carry fracked gas from West Virginia through Virginia to eastern North Carolina, which is home to many Native Americans.
NPR
December 31, 1999
Among those horrified at the thought: American Indians who recognized this as the same type of federal food assistance that tribes have historically received, ... Indian country, says Jernigan, now a University of Oklahoma researcher who studies the impacts of food environments on Native American health.
