As Indian Country contends with slashed funding from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an Alaska Native tribe is defending claims that its food assistance program is wasteful spending. 

Ten bills aimed at tribal water rights passed the Senate Committee on Indin Affairs on Wednesday.

As a $340 billion House budget resolution moves toward a floor vote this evening, Native advocates warn that proposed cuts to Medicaid would buckle the already strapped Indian Health Service (IHS). 

Riverside-San Bernardino County Indian Health (RSBCIHI) and the Morongo Band of Mission Indians recently broke ground earlier this month on a new healthcare facility aimed at expanding medical services for Native Americans in the region. 

Today, Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) reintroduced the IHS Workforce Parity Act to make it easier for Indian Health Services (IHS) to recruit and retain medical workers.

At a recent Southwest Indigenous Women’s Coalition event in Arizona, a woman reached out and literally touched Nicole Wagon (Northern Arapaho), saying she hoped to gain some of Wagon’s strength. For many Indigenous families seeking justice for missing and murdered loved ones, Wagon has become a symbol of persistence and hope. 

The Indian Health Service faces losing 2,500 employees in new federal layoffs, nearly triple initial estimates, warns the top executive of a national Native health organization. The cuts would further strain the agency responsible for providing healthcare to 2.5 million American Indians and Alaska Natives. 

Federal DEI funding restrictions do not apply to the Indian Health Service (IHS) programs serving American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs), according to a Feb. 6 Department of Health and Human Services legal memo obtained by Native News Online. 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made headlines recently when it removed critical public health data from its website to comply with President Trump's executive orders to scrub any mention of race, gender, sexual orientation, disabilities and other terms from U.S. health agency websites.

Two employees of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC), Rhone Baumgartner, 46, and Kameron Hartvigson, 41, were among those who died in a devastating plane crash last week in Alaska.

In the past few weeks, the National Indian Health Board opened a funding opportunity for maternal health awareness; a federally-recognized tribe signed a first-of-its-kind data sharing agreement with the state of Washington; a Montana tribe announced it is taking over operations of an IHS clinic on its reservation; and federal health organizations modified public-facing health data to comply with President Trump’s executive orders, a move the Urban Indian Health Institute called a violation of tribal sovereignty. Here is our weekly round-up of health equity news.

The Centers for  Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has stripped crucial health data from its website that tribal nations rely on to protect their citizens’ health, prompting immediate pushback from Native health leaders. 

An FBI report on violent and sexual crimes against Native American women provides new data about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) crisis.