Native Veterans News Today

Work is beginning on a new grocery store in Delta Junction. A leadership delegation from Wasilla High School spent the weekend in Utqiaġvik at Barrow High School. And it looks

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In addition to articles already covered by Native News Online, here is a roundup of other news released from Washington, D.C. that impacts Indian Country recently. Rep. Sharice Davids, a Democrat now serving her third in Congress from Kansas' third congressional district and a tribal citizen of the Ho-Chunk Nation, says she knows people are frustrated by the gridlock in Congress. Davids said in a statement.

Secretary Of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough announced at the National Congress of American Indians Executive Council Winter Session on Tuesday morning that the Department of Veterans Affairs has exempted or reimbursed more than 143,000 copayments totaling approximately $2.5 million for more than 3,800 eligible American Indian and Alaska Native Veterans. This is a result of VA’s new 2023 policy that eligible American Indian and Alaska Native Veterans are no longer required to make copay...

At the White House Tribal Summit last week, Indian Health Service Director Roselyn Tso announced a reimbursement agreement for Native veterans. Through a renewed joint agreement between IHS and Veterans Affairs signed on December 6, VA will continue to reimburse IHS for health care and related services provided to eligible Native veterans by or through IHS-operated healthcare facilities. The agencies have had a similar reimbursement agreement since 2012, when the VA first signed an MOU to fina...

For the 2023 Veterans Day, the National Museum of the American Indian has selected several online virtual options for you to connect to our Native veterans publications.

The Cherokee Nation and Eastern Oklahoma VA Health Care System recently signed an historic agreement to provide a VA clinic inside the tribe’s Vinita Health Center for area Veterans.

The Cherokee Nation signed a historic agreement to bring additional veteran health care to northeast Oklahoma.

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South Dakota U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate...