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The Red Lake Margaret Cochenour Memorial Hospital in Northwestern Ontario, in a remote small town about 330 miles (535 km) northwest of Thunder Bay, shut down its emergency department for 24 hours over the weekend of March 26-27 due to a lack of physicians. Residents experiencing medical emergencies had to travel about 130 miles to the nearest open hospital, in Dryden.
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The last time Shoshone-Bannock tribal member Cynder Metz saw her son, Matthew Jay Broncho, he told her he wanted to go back to school. Matt, then 34, had a bachelor’s degree in political science from Idaho State University and was thinking of getting his master’s.
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MILWAUKEE — Duane “Dodge” Waubanascum, once an amateur boxer from the Oneida Nation who won two Golden Glove titles in the 1970s, stands in the back of a room watching a group of fellow Native American Elders participate in a boxing class.
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Special to Native News Online. Some of your child’s most exciting growth milestones involve their teeth – from their first tooth coming in, to losing their first tooth and getting a special visit from the Tooth Fairy.
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On an October morning in Washington state in 1999, Puyallup tribal member Carolyn DeFord woke up and started to cry. DeFord, then 25, didn’t know why she was crying.
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The Navajo Nation issued a proclamation recognizing March 17, 2022 as “Navajo Nation Day of Prayer” in honor and memory of all lives lost to COVID-19. To commemorate the day, Navajo Nation leaders gathered for a prayer service Thursday morning to remember those who have died and ask for blessings for their communities and frontline health care workers. The date marks two years since the first COVID-19 case was confirmed on the Navajo Nation.
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The Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation’s cancer treatment center on the Navajo Nation is receiving $8 million in federal funding. The money will be used to expand the cancer treatment center and help develop skilled nursing services and long-term care for Navajo elders, according to a Navajo Nation press release on Monday. This funding is part of a $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill signed into law Friday to fund the federal government through the rest of the fiscal year.
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On Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed a $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill, a package that provides funding for federal agencies through the rest of the fiscal year. The 2,741-page bill includes $6.6 billion for the Indian Health Service (IHS) for FY2022, a 6.3% increase from last year’s enacted funding, according to a policy alert by the National Council of Urban Indian Health (NCUIH).
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This month StrongHearts Native Helpline, a 24/7, 365-day culturally-appropriate domestic, dating and sexual violence helpline for Native Americans, observes five years of successful operation this month.
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First Lady Jill Biden, along with the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, will visit the San Xavier Health Center in the San Xavier District of the Tohono O'odham Nation on Tuesday, March 7, 2022.
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