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An FBI report on violent and sexual crimes against Native American women provides new data about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) crisis.
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Across Indian Country, tribal communities are proving that blending Indigenous practices with Western medicine creates more effective addiction treatment for their citizens. This 3-part series examines how Native-led programs are transforming care for tribal members through prevention, harm reduction, and recovery approaches that honor both traditional and clinical wisdom. This series was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
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The Trump administration has withdrawn an order that directed all federal agencies to temporarily halt their grants, loans, and financial assistance programs—a move that would have severely impacted healthcare services for American Indians and Alaska Natives. The order would have cut off funding to the Indian Health Service, a federal agency established to uphold the United States' treaty obligations to tribes, as well as grants supporting research and critical programs.
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The Trump administration ordered a pause on public communications for several federal health agencies, including the Indian Health Service, which provides healthcare to millions of American Indian and Alaska Native people.
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Newly published data from New Mexico shows a promising drop in deaths by suicide among the state’s Native American population.
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This story was originally published on ProPublica.com.
At least 40 Native American residents of sober living homes and treatment facilities in the Phoenix area died as state Medicaid officials struggled to respond to a massive fraud scheme that targeted Indigenous people with addictions.
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- By Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, and Hannah Bassett, Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting
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A few years before the covid-19 pandemic, Dale Rice lost a toe to infection.
But because he was uninsured at the time, the surgery at a Reno, Nevada, hospital led to years of anguish. He said he owes the hospital more than $20,000 for the procedure and still gets calls from collection agencies.
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A White Mountain Apache Tribe program that cut suicide deaths by 38% may soon expand to tribal nations across Indian Country. The program — called Celebrating Life — combines Apache cultural teachings with mandatory reporting of suicide risks among tribal members. Through a new partnership with Johns Hopkins, more than 35 Indigenous communities are looking to adopt the model.
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The SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) launched an evidence-based opioid treatment program at the Recovery In SouthEast Wellness Center in Ketchikan on Jan. 13.
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