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How Sexual Stigma Is Undermining HIV Treatment On Indian Reservations - ThinkProgress

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How Sexual Stigma Is Undermining HIV Treatment On Indian Reservations
ThinkProgress
A Navajo reservation on the Arizona-New Mexico border has seen its HIV diagnoses go up by 20 percent since 2011. Despite a concerted push by the federal Indian Health Service (IHS) and public health advocates to expand tribal HIV education programs, ...
Increase in HIV infections among Navajo prompt fears of epidemicFox News
Unprecedented Number of HIV Cases in Navajo ReservationColorLines magazine
Navajo Confront an Increase in New HIV InfectionsNew York Times
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Tanka Bars on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation creates success, jobs - KSFY

Tanka Bars on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation creates success, jobs
KSFY
Kyle is home to just under 900 people on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and home to the headquarters of Native American Natural Foods. That's the parent company to this: Tanka Bar. "We wanted to create a natural, no preservative, healthy snack bar ...

Native American Youth Stage Pine Ridge South Dakota Alcohol Blockade - The Herald | HeraldOnline.com

Native American Youth Stage Pine Ridge South Dakota Alcohol Blockade
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
PINE RIDGE INDIAN RESERVATION, S.D., May 2, 2013 ? /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- According to Alcohol Justice, a group of 7th generation Oglala Lakota, known as the Oglala Native Youth Movement, have erected a tipi on the South Dakota/Nebraska ...

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After years of debate, Navajos debut 1st Ariz. casino-resort - Arizona Daily Star

After years of debate, Navajos debut 1st Ariz. casino-resort
Arizona Daily Star
The Navajo Nation signed gaming compacts with Arizona and New Mexico a decade ago, clearing the way for the gaming industry on the nation's largest American Indian reservation. Tribal members later approved gaming in a referendum vote after twice ...

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Bringing the Plight of Reservation Homes to the Nation's Capital - Indian Country Today Media Network

Bringing the Plight of Reservation Homes to the Nation's Capital
Indian Country Today Media Network
Organizers, knowing the current limits on federal spending, said another goal is to get America's private sector to establish new housing grant programs for America's most needy Indian reservations and Alaska Native communities. ?Only ten housing units ...

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Water rights tear at an Indian reservation - Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Water rights tear at an Indian reservation
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Today, resorts and million-dollar homes line the shores of Flathead Lake, the reservation's largest body of water. Of the reservation's more than 28,000 residents, 6,576 are American Indians, according to census data. "We are minorities on our homeland ...

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"Termination and Relocation," Defunct Policy Still Impacts American Indians - KUNC

"Termination and Relocation," Defunct Policy Still Impacts American Indians
KUNC
Indian Termination and Relocation was a 1950s policy designed to stop U.S. government spending on reservation services and relocate American Indians to cities like Dallas, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles ? and Denver. Editor's Note: The headline for this ...

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Master's degree grads to put UMD training to work on reservations - Duluth News Tribune

Master's degree grads to put UMD training to work on reservations
Duluth News Tribune
?It's a uniquely American Indian program, geared towards people that work on reservations,? said Tadd Johnson, who directs the program as well as UMD's American Indian studies department. Johnson, a member of the Bois Forte band of Chippewa, brings a ...

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New Milwaukee Group Supports Native American Women - Indian Country Today Media Network

New Milwaukee Group Supports Native American Women
Indian Country Today Media Network
The news service reports that Kaquatosh grew up on the Menominee Indian reservation in northeastern Wisconsin but moved to Milwaukee when she was 10. Those mentors she mentioned along with her mother, who she called ?strong,? helped support her ...

Selling off Wounded Knee - Socialist Worker Online

Socialist Worker Online

Selling off Wounded Knee
Socialist Worker Online
There is no doubt that this land is considered sacred not only by the Lakota, but also by American Indians around the country. Then why is it for sale? Aren't American Indian reservations sovereign? How could it be that reservation land is privately owned?

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