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Budget Cuts (action alert)-President Bush eliminating urban Indian health program
Feb 24, 2006

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Location:United States
Budget Cuts (action alert)



As you may have heard, President Bush has proposed eliminating the entire urban Indian health program as part of his budget strategy. This would be a cut of $33 million for the 34 urban Indian health programs that are located throughout the United States. Some of these programs have no other source of funding and would have to close. Others would have to reduce services significantly.

This happened before, in the 1980's, when Reagan did the same thing. We waged a large and widespread grass-roots campaign to fight it and won.
We will need to do the same this time around and we need your help.  I think we can win again but we will need a response from as many people
as possible.  Also, if you know anyone who can help us in this fight, please contact them and let them know what's going on.

Please contact me for 2 documents that the National Council of Urban Indian Health programs (NCUIH) has prepared for this fight. The first
is a statement from individuals about why the urban Indian health program
is important to them. The second is a letter to the members of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.

Please have people put in their name and home address and sign each one, and then fax or send them to NCUIH's attorney, Greg A. Smith (info
below). Send the documents to anyone you know anywhere in the country.
The more we can show nationwide support, the better. Anything you can do to help get these in would be greatly appreciated!

Please fax/mail the letters to:

Greg Smith, The Smith Law Firm
2099 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Suite 850
Washington, DC 20006
Tel: 202-265-1551
Fax: 202-265-4901
Email: gsmith@johnstondc.com

Thanks very much,

Liz Hunt
Executive Director, Indian Health Center
1333 Meridian Avenue, San Jose, CA 95125
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Posted: Friday February 24, 2006, 2:22 pm
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Scott Barta (40) 		Friday February 24, 2006, 4:22 pm
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/763263381

Cobell Update Petition
The Associate Deputy Interior Secretary James Cason sent a "Dear Tribal Leader" letter detailing a plan to cut various Indian programs to pay some of the $7 million in legal fees and expenses Cobell was awarded against the government for stealing over $4 billion "Indian" dollars. The government lost a lawsuit and should not punish the people who won by paying them from their own money. This is absurd.

Legislation is pending regarding this lawsuit, and I strongly urge lawmakers to vote in favor of the Indian Trust beneficiaries - for what is right and honorable (for a change). It is time the u.s. government takes responsibility for its gross mismanagement of Indian Trust money. Has not the mismanagement and theft of Indigenous American Indian funds, resources, and lands caused Indigenous Peoples to have suffered enough?

Please do the right thing by voting to hold the government accountable for mismanaging billions in tribal monies.

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