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  2. Indian Health Service - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  3. Sterilization of Native American women - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Patients suffer when Indian Health Service doesn’t pay for ...

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    Native Americans say the U.S. is violating treaties with tribal nations that promised to care for tribes' health and welfare in return for their land.

  5. Bureau of Indian Affairs - Wikipedia

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    The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), also known as Indian Affairs (IA), [2] is a United States federal agency within the Department of the Interior.It is responsible for implementing federal laws and policies related to Native Americans and Alaska Natives, and administering and managing over 55,700,000 acres (225,000 km 2) of reservations held in trust by the U.S. federal government for ...

  6. Sioux San Hospital - Wikipedia

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    The Rapid City Indian Health Service Hospital formerly known as The Sioux San Hospital is an Indian Health Service hospital located in Rapid City, South Dakota. [1] It was built in 1898 as a boarding school for Native Americans and turned into a sanitarium in 1933.

  7. Health of Native Americans in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Indian Health Service works in collaboration with the University of Arizona College of Medicine to maintain the Native American Cardiology Program. This is a program that acknowledges the changes in lifestyle and economics in the recent past which have ultimately increased the prevalence of heart attacks, coronary disease, and cardiac deaths.

  8. Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975

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    The Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (Public Law 93-638) authorized the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and some other government agencies to enter into contracts with, and make grants directly to, federally recognized Indian tribes. The tribes would have authority for ...

  9. Foreigners Registration Office - Wikipedia

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    Foreigner registration is a mandatory requirement by the Government of India under which all foreign nationals (excluding overseas citizens of India) visiting India on a long term visa (more than 180 days) are required to register themselves with a Registration Officer within 14 days of arriving in India. [2]