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First Lady Jill Biden, along with the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, will visit the San Xavier Health Center in the San Xavier District of the Tohono O'odham Nation on Tuesday, March 7, 2022.
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The First Nations Development Institute, a national nonprofit working to improve economic conditions for Native Americans, announced Thursday it received a $1.5 million grant from the Colorado Health Foundation. The two-year grant will be used to develop the Native American Fund for Health Equity aimed at increasing philanthropic investment to Native-led community organizations and tribes in Colorado.
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The National Indian Health Board (NIHB) and the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organization (AAPCHO) will be convening a virtual listening session on March 1, 2022, on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC’s) COVID-19 mask guidance. This listening session provides an opportunity for American Indian (AI), Alaska Native (AN), Asian American (AA), and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (NH/PI) communities to ask questions about the CDC’s COVID-19 mask guidance and learn how to receive free COVID-19 rapid kits and masks.
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The federal government has long stood between Indigenous women and their reproductive rights.
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Hundreds are expected to gather on Sunday, Feb. 20, for a Red Tipi Healing Ceremony in Chula Vista, Calif. in San Diego County for songs, dancing and blessings. The event is planned to honor missing and murdered Native Americans.
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Dr. Denise Gabaldon-Thronas, born and raised at Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo in Northern New Mexico, approaches her practice of medicine as though she’s an archeologist, digging to find the root cause of an ailment.
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The Navajo Nation is working to expand its Indigenous healthcare workforce through an ongoing partnership with the University of California San Francisco’s Health Equity, Action & Leadership Initiative (HEAL).
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A study released on Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), show booster shots of the of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines lose effectiveness after four months, but still provide significant protection that keeps low hospitalization rates during the Omicron surge.
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Editor's Note: This statement by the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center was released on Wednesday after the revelation of a criminal charge was brought by the State of Oklahoma against reowned Native artist Walter "Bunky" Echo-Hawk, Jr. See Native News Online's article here.
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On Wednesday, the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe responded to New York State Governor Kathy Hochul’s announcement earlier in the day to end the state’s mask mandate for indoor public spaces.
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