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The Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health is calling on tribes and tribal health organizations to share stories of how they’ve used Tribal Opioid Settlement Funds to help their communities heal from the overdose crisis.
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The Missing and Murdered Diné Relatives Task Force is inviting local communities to participate in a Survivor and Family Listening Session hosted by the Arizona Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) Task Force on Thursday, Dec. 11. The session runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Victim Witness Services of Northern Arizona, 201 E. Birch Ave., Suite 4, Flagstaff, Ariz.

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For buffalo rancher Jason Byrd, a good stew is a story told with corn, beans, squash and bison — the “Three Sisters” and the animal that has carried his people for centuries.

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The National Indian Health Board (NIHB) is urging Tribal communities and advocates to contact Congress and push for an extension of enhanced premium tax credits, which are set to expire at the end of the year.

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The worst part about Jeri Robertson’s job is turning people away. 

In her five years as the housing manager for the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation in Northern California, which crosses state borders overlapping Northern California and Southern Oregon, Robertson has witnessed skyrocketing rents, overcrowded homes, waiting lists that are years-long, and families caught between services with nowhere to go.

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced yesterday that it has repealed a rule that long-term care facilities accepting Medicaid and Medicare could provide relief for tribal facilities strained by critical staffing shortages.  
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 Native people are killed by gun violence at rates more than almost any other community in the United States, trailing only the black population. That's according to a new report from the Violence Policy Center, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit working to end gun violence through research and policy.
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 During this National Influenza Vaccination Week (NIVW), the National Council of Urban Indian Health (NCUIH) is urging Native people to get vaccinated for the respiratory viruses, including the flu, RSV, and COVID-19.
 
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The University of Oklahoma’s Native Nations Center for Tribal Policy Research recently named Grace Fox (Seminole) as its first tribal health care policy analyst.
 
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The Trump administration is touting its $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program as the largest-ever U.S. investment in rural health care. But the government made minimal mention of Native American tribes in sparsely populated areas and in need of significant improvements to health care access.

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