Growing up in Chinle, Ariz., the heart of the Navajo Nation, Kim Russell said she never saw the same physician twice. “They didn’t have a high level of commitment to the community,” she said. Facing a ...

In October, the Biden Administration expanded both Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for practices that could include sweat lodges and drumming in Oregon, California, New ...

Midwest Street Medicine hosted a public event to discuss Native American culture and historical trauma. Keynote speaker Tanya Grassel-Krietlow linked historical policies to generational trauma and ...

When Washington’s legislative session kicks off next week, lawmakers will take up the issue of traditional Native American medicine. Washington state Medicaid doesn’t currently reimburse Native ...

Surveys the Native American healing and health care practices from the time of first European contact up to the present. Includes a chapter profiling some Native American healers. siris_sil_741411 ...

The American Indian Center’s new Food is Medicine program marks a generational and culinary shift — through braised bison with a blackberry mole sauce, and a venison dip sandwich with giardiniera — ...

The Biden Administration is trying to woo Native Americans whose votes could be pivotal in Western states. One pre-election gambit is to let Medicaid pay for Native American “traditional medicine.” ...