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A group recently launched a program to address a rise in suicide among American Indian and Alaska Native veterans.

The agency hopes the new policy will help improve relationships between federal employees and Tribes in Alaska.

4:59 A new study from Alaska Native Tribal Health Center shows that cancer rates among Alaska Native people have gone up over the last half-century. Researchers say the data points to opportunities for prevention. Yet cancer remains the leading cause of death for Alaska Native people — and it has been for decades. “This is outrageous. Why are we not at war with this thing? Why are we not doing more?” asked Eric Fox, who lost his mother to cancer in 2017. Within months, Fox was serving on the state’s advisory board to the American Cancer Society. He said you’d be hard-pressed to tal...