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Cherokee Nation leaders are proposing a $4 million transitional housing program for recently incarcerated citizens to supplement their opioid addiction recovery programs.

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The Indian Health Service has released its year-in-review, touting its accomplishments for 2025, a year marked by swift policy changes and funding cuts across most federal agencies.

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The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, on will hear testimony on legislation introduced to benefit tribal health programs.

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Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. and Deputy Chief Bryan Warner have proposed placing more than $6.5 million in new opioid settlement funds into the tribe’s Public Health and Wellness Fund Act, including $4 million to help build and operate transitional living housing for formerly incarcerated citizens.

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U.S. Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., and Mike Rounds, R-S.D., introduced bipartisan legislation Tuesday aimed at improving health outcomes in Tribal communities by elevating the leadership of the Indian Health Service within the federal government.

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President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Thursday launching an initiative aimed at filling in the gaps of access to addiction treatment and mitigating the fallout of the ongoing overdose crisis. The order comes after the administration announced last month the gutting of nearly $2 billion in programs providing addiction and mental health services across the nation, only to rescind the cuts 24 hours later.
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The Indian Health Service today announced the largest hiring initiative in its 70-year history, opening thousands of positions across the agency. 
 
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The United States has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of State announced yesterday.
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When one of Adam Burkhammer’s foster children struggled with hyperactivity, the West Virginia legislator and his wife decided to alter their diet and remove any foods that contained synthetic dyes.

“We saw a turnaround in his behavior, and our other children,” said Burkhammer, who has adopted or fostered 10 kids with his wife. “There are real impacts on real kids.”

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 The Indian Health Service (IHS) remains underfunded in a newly passed spending minibus that allocates $8.05 billion to the historically strapped agency for the 2026 Fiscal Year, plus an additional $5.31 billion in advance appropriations for the 2027 Fiscal Year.
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