by Kunjal Bastola and Shravya Pant | Nov 9, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Tribal leaders called on lawmakers to enhance tribal law enforcement authority and implement further behavioral health interventions to address the fentanyl crisis at a Senate oversight hearing on Wednesday. The hearing held by the Senate Indian Affairs...
by Kunjal Bastola | Sep 28, 2023 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – Native American communities are still woefully behind in reliable access to water, a public health problem that is exposing populations to an array of issues, from personal hygiene to respiratory illness. In an effort to ensure that the federal government...
by Yiming Fu | Oct 5, 2021 | Health & Science, Living
WASHINGTON – The Department of Health and Human Services’ botched response to rolling out the COVID-19 vaccine for Native Americans caused significant delays in getting the vaccine to urban American Indians, the president of the National Council of Urban Indian Health...