Cherokee hospital uses art to build community
(NORTH CAROLINA) -- When the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians took over the Cherokee Indian Hospital from the Indian Health Service in 2002, the hospital’s administrators faced a challenge.
U.S. Announces $42 Million In Grants For Native Americans
(WASHINGTON, DC) -- The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Administration for Native Americans (ANA) announces the availability of $42 million in competitive grant funding for fiscal year 2010 for community-based projects.
Official: Tribal children need 'healthy families'
(NEW MEXICO) -- Making more arrests and throwing more offenders behind bars will not bring an end to the crimes against children and other violence that is plaguing many of the nation's American Indian communities, a federal official for Indian affairs said Tuesday.
Natuashish needs booze ban: Innu Nation
(LABRADOR) -- The head of Labrador's Innu Nation says the northern reserve of Natuashish should keep a controversial ban on alcohol, despite a vow by its newly elected chief to repeal it.
Native American health needs to be studied
(NEBRASKA) -- Finding more ways to work with Native Americans to improve their health is the goal of a University of Nebraska Medical Center conference later this month.
Murrow Home receives contribution from Cherokee Nation
(OKLAHOMA) -- The Cherokee Nation recently contributed $5,000 to the Murrow Indian Children’s Home, a non-profit organization providing residential and crisis care as well as daycare for children of teen mothers from tribes across Oklahoma.
Lessons at Indian Hospital About Births
(ARIZONA) -- After less than two hours in the maternity ward, with her boyfriend, his mother and a nurse-midwife by her side, Jacquelynn Torivio gave birth to a five-pound, five-ounce son with his grandmother’s dimples and a full head of shiny black hair.
Hastings doctor goes to Haiti after earthquake
(OKLAHOMA) -- Dr. Charles Pradieu was more than a thousand miles away from his home country of Haiti when it was struck by a devastating magnitude-7.0 earthquake on Jan. 12. However, he felt his own aftershocks in Oklahoma while watching news coverage of the event.
Fort Defiance hospital workers fear the worst in tribal takeover
(ARIZONA) -- Local elected officials were blasted Tuesday night for taking too little interest in the tribe's takeover of the Indian Health Service hospital here, which some workers say is causing the wholesale loss of doctors, nurses and other employees.
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