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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 ...
The beginnings of the federal policy favoring self-determination dates back to the 1930s. In 1933 John Collier, a social worker and reformer who had long worked in American Indian affairs, was appointed commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was likely the most knowledgeable person about American ...
The Indian Health Service (IHS) was established within the Public Health Service in 1955 to meet federal treaty obligations to provide health services to members of federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native tribes. The IHS consists of three branches of service: the federally operated direct care system, independent tribally ...
Bernie Whitebear , American Indian activist, a co-founder of the Seattle Indian Health Board (SIHB), the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, and the Daybreak Star Cultural Center. Robert A. Williams Jr. , an American lawyer who is a notable author and legal scholar in the field of Federal Indian Law, International Law and Indigenous ...
Indian Health Care Improvement Act (IHCIA), enacted in 1976 to address the deplorable living conditions in Indian Country. [11] Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, enacted in 1975, it authorized the secretaries of the Interior, Health, and Education to enter into contracts under which the tribes themselves would assume ...
The Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 allows tribes to enter into a contract with the government to assume control over healthcare facilities, thus side-stepping the Indian Health Service and allowing tribes more autonomy over how they approach and deliver health care. [32]
IHS is the principal federal health care provider and health advocate for American Indian people. [1] The IHS provides health care in 37 states to approximately 2.2 million out of 3.7 million American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN). [2] As of April 2017, the IHS consisted of 26 hospitals, 59 health centers, and 32 health stations.
Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act San Carlos Apache Tribe , 602 U.S. ___ (2024), was a United States Supreme Court case which determined that the federal government must provide additional funding to cover some third-party administrative costs incurred by Native American tribes that operate their own health-care programs.