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The Health Care America Refuses To Provide
Health & Wellness  (tags: American Indians, Native Americans, healthcare, health, medicine, government, humans, politics, culture, society )

Kat
- 3 days ago - dissidentvoice.org
As you're reading this I'm sure your eyes are beginning to roll, indicating how peeved you're probably getting over yet another tirade on the subject of health-care-overhaul. Fear not. To prevent this article from joining the all-embracing tautology of...
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NATIVE AMERICAN HEALTH: Taking Preventive Measures
Health & Wellness  (tags: Native Amreican health, native americans, healthcare, health, prevention, diet, news )

Cal
- 5 days ago - indiancountrytoday.com
Employees of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota learned ways to prevent suicide during training sessions, following the deaths of 27 teens and young adults and the attempted suicides of more than 400 tribal members over the past few years.
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Federal Grant Goes to Help Brain-Injury Patients
Health & Wellness  (tags: American Indians, Native Americans, healthcare, medicine, news, government )

Kat
- 16 days ago - daily-times.com
FARMINGTON -- More American Indians with traumatic brain injuries can expect assistance finding services following the announcement of a $20,000 grant to the Native American Disability Law Centers in Farmington and Gallup. The grant, announced by U.S...
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Obama Administration Makes New Promise on Indian Health
Health & Wellness  (tags: healthcare, health, Native Americans, politics, society, protection )

Cal
- 43 days ago - indiancountrytoday.com
The nation's top health official has told Indian country health leaders that the Obama administration believes American Indians deserve special consideration in any national reform to health insurance.
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$90 Million to Bolster Water Services in Indian Country and Create Jobs
Health & Wellness  (tags: Native Americans, water, health, environment, government, safety )

Lone
- 93 days ago - indiancountrytoday.com
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service's IHS recently announced $90 million in funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for improved access to vital drinking water
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INTER-TRIBAL WELLNESS CENTER (ITWC): A Holistic Resolution for a Comprehensive Problem
Health & Wellness  (tags: Indians, American Indians, Native Americans, Health & Wellness, Addiction, Alcoholism, Recovery, Substane Abuse, culture, society, ethics, rights, humans, interesting, freedoms, disease, illness, medicine, treatment )

Kat
- 155 days ago - mtwytlc.com
The potential that is offered by this facility seems endless. The property includes 638 acres of both hilly and level pasture land. A river runs through the property and sweat lodges have been built on its banks. There are high points/ledges, private...
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Tribes Finally Getting Money for Health Center
Health & Wellness  (tags: Indians, American Indians, Native Americans, Medical, culture, society, ethics, news, politics, rights, safety, obama, healthcare, ethics, GoodNews, government, safety, prevention, protection, news, illness, healthcare, health, family )

Kat
- 235 days ago - nativetimes.com
NEW TOWN, N.D. (AP) - The Three Affiliated Tribes were promised a new health clinic decades ago in return for land lost to the Garrison Dam on the Missouri River. They're finally getting it. A spending bill signed by President Barack Obama includes...
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American Cancer Society Offers Lodging to Cancer Patients
Health & Wellness  (tags: Indians, Native Americans, American Indians, Cancer, culture, society, rights, safety, GoodNews, ethics, interesting, news, family, healthcare, illness, humans, interesting, medicine, protection, prevention, treatment )

Kat
- 251 days ago - indiancountrytoday.com
Facing cancer is hard, and having to travel out of town for treatment can make it even harder. The American Cancer Society has a place where cancer patients can find help and hope when home is far away - an American Cancer Society Hope Lodge...
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National Native HIV/AIDS
Health & Wellness  (tags: Indians, Native Americans, American Indians, HIV, AIDS, culture, society, ethics, humans, interesting, news, education, freedoms, rights, Body-Mind-Spirit, disease, health, healthcare, illness, prevention, protection, safety, research )

Kat
- 252 days ago - nnaapc.org
The four seasons are highly respected in many cultures because they so closely represent the cycle of life. Spring represents a time of equality and balance. It is a time of profound change, new beginnings and birth. For these reasons, spring was chosen..
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Solar Gazing With Hira Ratan Manek - Part 2   video
Health & Wellness  (tags: HRM, Sun, Gazing, Solar, Healing, health, food, disease, Body-Mind-Spirit, study, Brainputer, third eye, pineal gland, etheric body, sun, son, living beings, Egypt, pharohs, Native Americans )

Gregory
- 316 days ago - youtube.com
CAUTION: Follow instructions properly.Description of complete Solar Gazing process with Hira Ratan Manek (HRM). Do one hour from sunrise or sunset only. Begin with only ten seconds the first time you do it. Please watch entire presentation.
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Toxic Housing
Health & Wellness  (tags: Lakota, Indians, American Indians, Native Americans, Disease, Illness, Black Mold, health, government, interesting, investigation, prevention, risks, safety, treatment, warning, children, environment, ethics, illness, humans )

Kat
- 328 days ago - republicoflakotah.com
"Black Mold" is a term commonly used to describe a slimy, greenish-black substance which can result in serious health risk. This infamous mold is also known as Strachybotrys chartarum and more often as Strachybotrys atra. It has been closely linked to...
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Water Rights Restored, Southwestern Tribes Hope for Health Benefits
Health & Wellness  (tags: Native Americans, water rights, farming, irrigation, diet, tradition, diabetes, fast food, Native culture, Pima, Maricopa, Tohono O’odham, New Mexico, Arizona, Gila River )

RC
- 447 days ago - nytimes.com
The Pima, Maricopa & Tohono O'odham communities in the American southwest are looking forward to using the water to farm for more traditional, natural foods, as obesity accompanied by diabetes devastates their health.
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1 in 10 Native American Deaths Alcohol Related
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, native Americans, diet, disease, study, warning, government )

Cal
- 449 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Almost 12 percent of the deaths among Native Americans and Alaska Natives are alcohol-related -- more than three times the percentage in the general population, a new federal report says.
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Native Americans With Cancer Largely ''Invisible'' to Policymakers
Health & Wellness  (tags: Native Americans, cancer, the Intercultural Cancer Council, April, report, alarming, incidence, death rates, access to prevention strategies, screening tests, health care, urban vs rural, disparities, federal, state, policymakers )

Alba
- 566 days ago - indiancountry.com
Compared to other groups, Indians have poorest survival rate for all cancers & many cancers disproportionately affect Native populations. Incidence & death rates from kidney cancer found to be higher than any other group. Poverty, discrepancies between..
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Indian Health Service :: Statement By Robert McSwain, Acting Director, Indian Health Service, Regarding National Native HIV/AIDS
Health & Wellness  (tags: Native Americans, AIDS, AIDS/HIV, death, disease, health, prevention, risks )

Chakwaina
- 610 days ago - sev.prnewswire.com
American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) are ranked third in the nation in the rate of AIDS diagnosis compared to all other races and ethnicities.
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