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Michael Weahkee will be stepping down as director of the Indian Health Service on January 20.
Cronkite News: Indian Country prepares for new era with Joe Biden as president (December 28, 2020)
The federal government may not have a stellar track record when it comes to keeping promises in Indian Country, but tribal leaders think President-elect Joe Biden could be the exception.
As they have for the past 17 years, Native men and women stood atop a windswept hill overlooking the Missouri River. They prayed for the Native children lost to the state welfare system.
Photos: Memorial March to Honor Our Lost Children (November 27, 2020)
The 18th Annual Memorial March to Honor Our Lost Children took place on Wednesday, November 25, 2020, in Sioux City, Iowa.
Crushing Colonialism: Colonizer theft of Indigenous children (November 17, 2020)
Children have been stolen from Indigenous communities for generations.
Supreme Court hears arguments in Affordable Care Act case (November 10, 2020)
The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a case that could undo the Indian Health Care Improvement Act.
Indian Country Today: Fate of Indian Child Welfare Act up to federal courts (October 12, 2020)
Indian Child Welfare Act advocates are raising questions about President Trump’s pick to the nation’s highest court, whose religious background and adoptions are at issue.
Appeals court hears arguments in COVID-19 funding dispute (September 11, 2020)
Tribal governments remain united as a federal appeals court determines the fate of more than a half-billion dollars in COVID-19 funding that’s been at the center of one of the most bitter Indian law and policy disputes in decades.
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