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The Native American Health Center, Inc. was founded in 1972 as the Urban Indian Health Board, Inc. [2] NAHC operates two sites in San Francisco, two sites in Oakland, one site in Richmond, and eight school based health centers. [3] NAHC provides medical, dental and family services to Native Americans and the residents of the surrounding ...
The Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River Reservation is a federally recognized tribe of Native Americans. The Tule River Reservation is located in Tulare County, California . [ 1 ] : 137 The reservation was made up of Yokuts , about 200 Yowlumne, Wukchumnis , [ 2 ] and Western Mono and Tübatulabal . [ 3 ]
The Indian Health Services (IHS) is a government organization created in 1955 to help combat poor health and living conditions of Native Americans and Alaska Natives. The IHS still exists in the United States, and is a blend of various organizations created to combat specific health problems for Native American and Alaskan Natives.
The Indian Health Service (IHS) is an operating division (OPDIV) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). IHS is responsible for providing direct medical and public health services to members of federally recognized Native American Tribes and Alaska Native people .
Pinkerman-Uri, who was Choctaw and Cherokee, was from Wheatland, California.In 1955, she graduated as a doctor from the University of Arkansas. [1] She subsequently practiced as a doctor in Los Angeles, where she set up the first free Indian hospital during the 1960s, as well as partaking in efforts to secure Fort McArthur, an abandoned military hospital, for use as an Indian hospital.
The second parcel, known as the Little Ewiiaapaayp Indian Reservation, is 10 acres (40,000 m 2) of land located within Alpine, which was put into trust in 1986. That land is leased to the Southern Indian Health Council, which provides health care for seven Kumeyaay tribes as well as non-Natives living in the area. [1]
The historic existence of the Auburn Indian Community is documented in the Bureau of Indian Affairs' correspondence dating back to the early 1900s. In 1917, the United States government purchased 20 acres (81,000 m 2 ) of land near Auburn, California, that was put in trust for the Auburn Band and formally established a reservation, known as the ...
The Fort Independence Reservation) in Independence, is a federally recognized Indian reservation with a total area of 356 acres (1.44 km 2) in Inyo County It was established in 1915. In 1990, the reservation was 234 acres (0.95 km 2 ) large with a population of 38 Indians.