2003 Health & Welfare News Stories
• • Indians See Rise in AIDS Infection Rates (Star
Tribune) * 12/29
• • Daschle Asks Bush to Increase Funding for IHS (Indianz.com)
12/18
• • Saying No
Not a Sure Thing (Press
Enterprise) * 12/12
• • Fewer
Reservation Teens Taking Risks (Great
Falls Tribune) 12/11
• • Study Urges
Accurate Diagnosis of Diabetes (Indianz.com)
12/10
• • A Look at Household Income and Poverty Rates for Wisconsin Reservations (News-Chronicle)
12/10
• • Gambling
Dollars Helped Tribe Upgrade Quality of Life (Green
Bay Press Gazette) 12/10
• • IHS Tackles Apache Suicide Crisis (usmedicine.com)
12/4
• • Report Notes
'Crisis' Facing Urban Indian Youth (Indianz.com)
12/4
• • Study Predicts
Rise in Type 2 Diabetes (ABC
News) 12/3
• • Rincon Tribe
Gives Grants to Members (Union-Tribune)
12/3
• • Rash of Suicides
Sparks Tribal Task Force (Great
Falls Tribune) 12/3
• • Survey Finds
Heavy Health Burden on Indian Population (Indianz.com)
12/1
• • Data Shows
Increase in HIV Infections in U.S. (Indianz.com)
12/1
• • Choctaw
Program on Violence Cited (Clarion
Ledger) 11/26
• • Free Alpine
Gas Could Be Heating Nuiqsut Next Winter (Anchorage
Daily News) 11/25
• • Alcoholism,
TB a Real Threat (Daily
Times) 11/25
• • Chickasaw
Nation Receives $10,000 Award from Harvard (The
Daily Ardmoreite) 11/24
• • Indians Targets
of Rental Prejudice (Argus
Leader) 11/21
• • AIDS Testing
Wwelcomed in Lame Deer (Billings
Gazette) 11/21
• • Feds:
No Increase Planned in IHS Budget (Daily
Times) 11/19
• • HUD Restricts
Grant Access (Fayetteville
Observer) 11/19
• • Indian Tribes
Forge Ties with Loan (Pioneer
Press) 11/16
• • Discrimination
in Metropolitan Housing Markets: Phase 3 - Native Americans (Huduser.org)
11/14
• • Survey Finds High-risk Behaviors among BIA Students (Indianz.com)
11/13
• • Tribal Housing
(azcentral.com)
11/13
• • Mont. Court
Won't Apply ICWA in Child Custody Case (Indianz.com)
11/11
• • Court Avoids
Indian Child Welfare Act Interpretation ( Star
Tribune) 11/10
• • Native Cure
(Tohono O'odham Tribe using traditional diet to fight diabetes) (Arizona
Republic) 11/10
• • Probe of
Indian Abuse Cases Sought (Billings
Gazette) 11/7
• • Wildfires
Hit Hard on Indian Reservations in Calif. (The
Olympian) 11/1
• • People Injured
in BIA, Tribal Disagreement (Billings
Gazette) 10/31
• • Shawnee
Lets Tribe Study Water Lines (Newsok.com)
* 10/30
• • Conference
Discusses Welfare of Indian Children (Billings
Gazette) 10/29
• • Papers Raise
Uranium Worries at Nev. Mine (Duluth
News Tribune) 10/29
• • Hopi Seek
Fed Funds to Combat Child Abuse (Gallup
Independent) 10/28
• • Democrats
Lay out Plan for Minority and Indian Health
(Indianz.com)
10/22
• • Funding nears
for Studies of Reservation Children (Billings
Gazette) 10/22
• • Grant Award
to Help Fight Diabetes (Rapid
City Journal) 10/21
• • Pima Data
in Diabetes Study (zwire.com)
10/21
• • Hearing Focuses
on Indian Health Care (New
York Times) * 10/19
• • Tour Finds
Indian Health Care Ailing (Albuquerque
Journal) 10/17
• • Study
Finds Fewer Native Children Survive Leukemia (Indianz.com)
10/16
• • Civil Rights
Commission Takes on Indian Health Care (Gallup
Independent) 10/15
• • Cherokee
Study: As Poverty Falls, Psychiatric Problems Improve (Herald-Sun)
10/15
• • Smoking Rates
among Natives Highest in Nation (Indianz.com)
10/10
• • After-school
Programs Much More than Babysitting (Reno-Gazette
Journal) 10/9
• • Violence
Plagues Ariz. Indians (Arizona
Central) 10/7
• • Kickapoos
Begin Child Center Work (NewsOK.com)
* 10/1
• • Tribe Gets
$1.3 million to Build New Health Center (Providence
Journal) * 9/26
• • Bug-tree
Wood Turned into Fuel ( Rapid
City Journal) 9/23
• • Playing the
Alcohol Card (Arizona
Republic) 9/22
• • Study Links
Childhood Experience to Alcohol Abuse (Indianz.com)
9/19
• • West Nile
Continues to Affect Area (Daily-Times)
9/19
• • Villages
Get 'Fire Department in a Box' (Anchorage
Daily News) 9/16
• • Reservation
Hit Hard by West Nile Virus (Yankton.net)
9/15
• • New Building
is a Key in Fighting Diabetes (Sioux
City Journal) 9/12
• • Wash.
Report Lays Out Plan for Indian Health Care (Indianz.com)
9/09
• • Tribe Offers
Treatment (Everett
Herald) 9/09
• • Muckleshoot Tribe Gives Away Computers to Every Tribal Home (King
County Journal) 9/04
• • O'odham Officials
Say Casino Profits Can't House All (Arizona
Daily Star) 9/04
• • Jicarilla Apache Nation Gets $1 Million Plus for Housing (Daily
Times) 9/04
• • The
National Bison Range (NYT)
* 9/03
• • Groups Lock
Horns over Bison Range (Washington
Post) 9/02
• • Maine Tribe
Tangles with State over Tax-free Cigarettes (Providence
Journal) * 9/01
• • Appeals Court
Won't Let State Tax Tribal Commerce (Indianz.com)
8/29
• • Cancer
Rates on the Decline in Indian Country (Indianz.com)
9/03
• • Tribes Seek
Housing Aid (Arizona
Daily Star) 9/03
• • Navajo Vaccination
Team near Goal; Lab Results Slow (Daily
Times) 9/02
• • Agency, Pueblo
Group Cut Ties (Albuquerque
Journal) 9/01
• • Ponca
Tribe Receives Grant (Sioux
City Journal) 8/27
• • Indian Health
Worries Shared (Argus
Leader) 8/25
• • Meth Called
an Epidemic among American Indians (Duluth
News Tribune) 8/24
• • Agreement
aimed at putting more telephones on Navajo reservation (San
Diego Union-Tribune) 8/18
• • Parents of
Seized Tot Get Apology (Denver
Post) 8/13
• • Indians Seek
Farm Debt Relief (Billings
Gazette) 8/13
• • Navajos
Brace for West Nile Virus (Arizona
Republic) 8/06
• • Judge Delays
‘Duroville’ Ruling until September (The
Desert Sun) 8/05
• • New Clinic
Gives a Boost to Native Health Care (Anchorage
Daily News) 8/05
• • Health Disparities
Experienced by American Indians and Alaska Natives (Morbidity
and Mortality Weekly Report) 8/01
• • Indians'
Health Not on Par with Rest of U.S. (Arizona
Daily Star) 8/01
• • IHS
Board Moving ( Rapid
City Journal) 7/25
• • Lieberman
Addresses Navajo Council (Daily
Times) 7/24
• • Villages
Get Time to Look at Fund Plan (Anchorage
Daily News) 7/22
• • Groups Seek
Better Indian Health Care (Bismarck
Tribune) 7/21
• • Reservation
Overrun by Dogs (Rapid
City Journal) 7/18
• • Tribe, Federal
Government to Work Together on New Health-Care Center (Santa
Fe New Mexican) 7/17
• • Officials
Fear High American Indian STD Rates Leave Door Open for HIV ( Rapid
City Journal) 7/14
• • Suit Focuses
on Indian Rights (Rapid
City Journal) 7/11
• • Navajo Nation,
Health Officials Meet (Gallup
Independent) 7/10
• • COMMUNITY:
Indian, and Drug-free (Grand
Forks Herald) 6/30
• • Reservation
TRoad Bill Moves Ahead (Daily
Times) 6/27
• • Ak-Chin Excited
by Assault on Diabetes (Arizona
Republic) 6/24
• • Najavos Confront
Syphilis Outbreak (NYT)
* 6/19
• • Fond du Lac
Stakes Future on Health and Education (Star
Tribune) * 6/17
• • Prevention
Program Aimed at Reducing Rate of Cervical Cancer in American Indian Women
(Rapid
City Journal) 6/17
• • Young Bill
to Expand Service (Daily
News-Miner) 6/16
• • Indian Housing
Woes Outlined (Missoulian)
6/13
• • Appeals Court Won't Invalidate Indian Child Adoption (Indianz.com)
6/10
• • Dineh Housing
Building 102 Homes in Shiprock (Daily
Times) 6/09
• • Warm Springs
Residents Dying Younger (Bend
Bulletin) 6/09
• • Shakopee
Mdewakanton Give Leech Lake $1 Million Grant (Star
Tribune) 6/05
• • Tribe Begins
Construction on Center (Central
Michigan Life) 6/04
• • Senate Committee
to Take Up Reservation Roads (Indianz.com)
6/03
• • Salt River
Tribe to Fund TGen Study (Arizona
Republic) 6/03
• • American
Indians Spared in Medicaid Cuts (Rocky
Mount Telegram) 5/29
• • Four S.D. Tribes Receive $17.4M in Housing Grants (Indianz.com)
5/22
• • Pipeline
Expected to Solve Many Reservation Problems (Great
Falls Tribune) 5/19
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• • Navajo Miners
Battle a Deadly Legacy of Yellow Dust (NYT)
5/13
• • Diabetes
Rates Explode in Indian Country (Indianz.com)
5/07
• • Bush Administration
Asked to Halt IHS Changes (Indianz.com)
5/07
• • Navajos Seek
Aid from Bar Owners to Combat STD Outbreak (Daily-Times)
5/01
• • IHS Positions
to Lose Indian Preference Under Bush Plan (Indianz.com)
4/24
• • Judge Rules
Boy, 4, Can't Take Peyote (Washington
Post) 4/23
• • Sac and Fox
Gets $2.3 Million HUD Grant to 'Buy, Build or Fix' (Shawnee
News-Star) 4/11
• • Indian Health
Bills Criticized by Bush Official (Indianz.com)
4/10
• • Appeals Court
Turns Down Navajo Nation Again (Indianz.com)
4/9
• • Senate Committee
Holds Indian Health Hearing (Indianz.com)
4/9
• • Opposition
Mounts to Bush IHS Initiatives (Indianz.com)
4/3
• • Indian Health
Care Act Subject of Senate Hearing (Indianz.com)
4/2
• • Tribe Donating
Money to TGen (Arizona
Republic) 3/28
• • Indian Schools
Trying to Adjust Fat, Sugar in Meals, Speakers Say (Great
Falls Tribune) 3/29
• • Tribe Donating
Money to TGen (Arizona
Republic) 3/28
• • HIV Takes
Root in Navajo Nation (Albuquerque
Journal) 3/27
• • Senate Rejects
One IHS Funding Measure, Passes Another
(Indianz.com)
3/26
• • Domenici
Makes a Push for Indian Housing Funds (Indianz.com)
3/7
• • Federal Agencies
Team Up on American Indian and Alaskan Native Veterans' Care (Indianz.com)
2/26
• • Bush Initiative
to be Scrutinized by Congress (Indianz.com)
2/19
• • Federal Tribal
Housing Obligation Said to Go Back to Treaty Days (Indian
Country Today) 2/7
• • Child Welfare
Conference Coming Up (Indian
Country Today) 1/30
• • Senator Campbell:
Charting a New Course in Indian Health Care (Indian
Country Today) 1/24
• • Indians Longing
for Shelter (Denver
Post) 1/22
