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Four people are dead after a medical transport plane crashed at around 12:40 p.m. on Tuesday on the Navajo Nation in Chinle.
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Tribal health leaders during a Tuesday public consultation questioned and criticized Montana’s move toward Medicaid work requirements and premiums for the low-income health coverage plan — a process the state health department is kickstarting months ahead of the schedule laid out in a Republican-backed domestic policy bill signed by President Donald Trump on July 4.
This article was originally published in the Montana Free Press.
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- By Mara Silvers and Nora Mabie, Montana Free Press
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Two years ago, Native News Online covered a devastating week of overdoses in the Lummi Nation. Lummi Chairman Anthony Hillaire testified last week at a House subcommittee in Washington, D.C., about the reverberating effects of cartel drug trafficking in his community. As Tribal Nations continue to bear the weight of the fentanyl crisis, with high overdoses, limited resources for healthcare and the jurisdictional maze of Indian Country, Hillaire and other Tribal leaders urged lawmakers to act.
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On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order called “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets” that aims to rid American cities of homelessness.
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On Wednesday, Rep. Dr. Raul Ruiz (D-CA) and Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) reintroduced the Urban Indian Parity Act, renewing bipartisan support for health equity in Indian Country. The bill aims to permanently extend key federal benefits to Urban Indian Organizations (UIOs), helping close dangerous gaps in care for Native Americans living in cities.
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ANCHORAGE — Federal agencies spend billions on roads and energy systems in Alaska, but nothing on fish camps and traditional trails that Jackie Qatalina Schaeffer calls “Indigenous infrastructure” — the subsistence systems that keep Alaska Native communities fed and healthy. As climate change threatens both types of infrastructure, she argues one is being ignored.
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The health of Native Americans who get their healthcare at rural hospitals could be at risk as health systems in remote areas brace for potential closures from massive Medicaid spending cuts.
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