By Jordan Marie WhetstoneFounder/Executive Director of Rising Hearts I’m a fourth-generation runner. Born in South Dakota, a member of the Lower Brule Indian Reservation—a community I was part of until we moved to Maine when I was 9 years old. Running is in my family, as it is for many Indigenous families where running has … Read Now
In communities across North America, there is renewed hope that our Indigenous languages can be preserved and revitalized, and there is strong consensus that our languages are the key to maintaining cultural and community identity. Unfortunately, most Indigenous language communities continue to suffer a net loss of fluent speakers due to the passing of our … Read Now
By Jo Ann Kauffman, MPHPresident/Founder, Kauffman and Associates, Inc. In 2020, while the rest of the country was in the throes of COVID-19, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Not just any breast cancer…. Stage 3, metastatic Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) to be exact. An aggressive little beast. This came as quite a shock. … Read Now
By Josh Severns, LCSW, ACADC (Little Shell Chippewa) Project Director, Traditional Health Care Practices Project (California), Kauffman and Associates, Inc. Contributors: Art Martinez, PhD (Chumash) | Holly Echo-Hawk, MSc (Pawnee) On October 16, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approved an amendment to California’s Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) Section 1115 waiver, authorizing … Read Now
By Rochelle Hamilton It feels like just yesterday that I was enjoying a cup of coffee in my office at the elders’ department of a local tribe when I received an email from my sister: “Rochelle, we need to talk. Come work with me.” “No thanks, I’m happy here.” I replied. At that time, I … Read Now
By Dolores Subia BigFoot, PhD Each of the 574 federally recognized tribes have their own unique stories, histories, teachings, and understandings. Unfortunately, there is a shared history of colonization and displacement resulting in many—or total—disruptions of our stories, teachings, and understandings of who we are, where we come from, and where we are going. Now, … Read Now
By former State of Montana Medicaid Director, Mary E. Dalton, Dalton Consulting LLC Disclaimer from author: I am not an attorney and I do not give legal advice. Throughout this paper, I will refer to different federal statutes or legislation, but I am referring to them from the perspective of a lay person reading the … Read Now
November is National Native American Heritage Month, a great opportunity to acknowledge American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States. In October 2022, in his National Native American Heritage Month proclamation, President Biden upheld America’s obligation to recognize Indigenous people across the world: “We celebrate Indigenous peoples past and present and rededicate ourselves to … Read Now
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