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Update 2:30 PM Gov. Doug Burgum on Friday named a Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa tribal leader as director o...

Gov. Doug Burgum appointed Nathan A. Davis of Belcourt, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and descendant of the Spirit Lake Nation, to serve as executive director of the North Dakota Indian Affairs Commission.

Leading Authority on American Indian and Alaska Native Health Spero Manson Receives 2021 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award News provided by Share this article Share this article ATLANTA, April 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Spero M. Manson, PhD, a leading authority with respect to American Indian and Alaska Native health, today was awarded the 2021 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award. Manson is a distinguished professor and the Colorado Trust Chair in American Indian Health at the Colorado School of Public Health, at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus where he directs the Cen...

Indian Country finally sees action on diabetes program Monday, December 28, 2020 Indianz.Com WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the first time in a decade, Indian Country will be able to rely on a stable source of funding to address diabetes in tribal and urban communities. But the achievement didn’t come without chaos, courtesy of the current occupant of the White House. The massive COVID-19 and federal funding bill that became law on Sunday includes a three-year authorization for the Special Diabetes Program for Indians (SDPI). The extension is the longest on record since 2010. “The program has ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On December 21, 2020, the House and Senate passed fiscal year (FY) 2021 federal omnibus appropriations legislation that included the fifth measure passed by Congress to address the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to providing $1.4 trillion to fund the federal government through FY 2021, the legislation includes $900 billion in relief funds to address COVID-19. The bill also includes significant health care provisions unrelated to COVID-19, including a ban on surprise billing by health care providers. The House passed the legislation ...