Indian Law Bulletins | News | Archives | 2013 Health & Welfare

• • In western Alaska, health care is spread thin (Anchorage Daily News) 5/28/13

• • 'Invisible' Urban Indians (Indian Country Today) 5/24/13

• • Native Americans trade tales of displaced children (Gillette News Record) 5/18/13

• • House repeals health care act, including IHCIA, once again (Indianz.com) 5/17/13

• • Native Sun News: County's ICWA abuses called 'shocking' (Indianz.com) 5/16/13

• • The fight for Baby Veronica, part 2 (Indian Country Today) 5/13/13

• • Great Plains ICWA summit hoping to address native foster care concerns (Indian Country Today) 5/13/13

• • $2 million funding available for child care grant programs (BNA) 5/7/13

• • American Indians will soon feel the effects of the Affordable Healthcare Act (Char-Koosta News) 5/2/13

• • Medicaid expansion to provide more care for Native Americans (NPR) 4/29/13

• • Opinion: Baby Veronica and the law of race (Indian Country Today) 4/28/13

• • Opinion: High-profile custody case (New York Times) 4/26/13

• • Native American biological father wins child custody case (Neil Ashmore Family Law Group) 4/26/13

• • Justice Department honors Healing Arts Program for tribal sexual assault victims (Office of Justice Press Release) 4/23/13

• • Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, state, DHS sign Indian Child Welfare Act agreement (US & Eastern Tribes, Inc.) 11/8/12

• • State of Miss., Choctaws want federal adoption act left intact (Clarion Ledger ) 4/21/13

• • [Baby Veronica] Argument recap: No easy answers in Indian adoption case (Scotus Blog ) 4/16/13

• • The adoption industry's ugly side (NARF ) 4/16/13

• • Indian affairs, adoption, and race: The Baby Veronica case comes to Washington (The Atlantic ) 4/12/13

• • Fighting to keep Native children at home (Indianz.com ) 4/12/13

• • Maine backs Indian father's parental rights (Kennebec Journal ) 3/28/13

• • SD tribes file lawsuit against social services (Ventura County Star) 3/23/13

• • Oglala and Rosebud file federal child-welfare lawsuit (Indian Country Today) 3/22/13

• • South Dakota tribes file lawsuit against social services (Albuquerque Express ) 3/21/13

• • The sequester hits the reservation (The New York Times) 3/20/13

• • New scholarship on domestic violence and Alaska natives (Turtle Talk ) 3/19/13

• • Maine, tribes seek 'Truth And Reconciliation' (NPR ) 3/12/13

• • A miscalculation on the sequester has already harmed Indian health (Indian Country Today ) 3/11/13

• • Health care reform and the impact on the Citizen Potawatomi Nation (Insurance News Net ) 2/28/13

• • Louise Erdirch Opinion: Rape on the reservation (New York Times ) 2/26/13

• • Officials concerned about sequester effects on Indian health services (Alaska Public ) 2/14/13

• • Bills aim to tackle youth suicide among NM tribes(Daily Times ) 2/9/13

• • Revised law could help Navajo victims of violence (The Daily Times ) 2/8/13

• • Senate poised to vote on VAWA: News analysis (Lake-County News Chronicle ) 2/7/13

• • South Dakota tribes accuse state of Violating Indian Welfare Act (NPR) 2/6/13

• • Arizona Congressman commits to reintroduce the Native American Suicide Prevention Act on the House floor (Indian Country Today ) 2/4/13

• • Longmont nonprofit helping form alliance [Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance] (Boulder County Business Report) 2/4/13

• • Media failures lead to flawed understandings in Cherokee adoption dase (Truth-Out ) 1/13/13

• • Cherokee breaks new ground with fines for domestic violence (Smoky Mountain News ) 1/9/13

• • Supreme Court to examine Indian Child Welfare Act requirements in adoption dispute (Washington Post ) 1/4/13

• • Back to square one on Violence Against Women Act (New York Magazine) 1/3/13