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Native Teen Needs Hard to Find Bone Marrow Donor
by Doug George-Kanentiio
Taylor Matt was an energetic teenager who had endured chemotherapy at age 12 and was entering her senior year at Cazenovia High School where she planned to carry on playing field lacrosse while studying hard [...]

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Mary Garrigan Journal staff
Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday for the last 18 months, Verna White Bull has been up at 4 a.m. for the 90-mile drive from her home on the eastern edge of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to Pine Ridge’s  dialysis unit.

White Bull, 71, needs a kidney transplant. But until that happens, she is [...]

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Dear friend,
This is Notah Begay III, and I’m writing to you today not only as a professional golf player, but as a full-blooded Native American (Navajo/Isleta/San Felipe Pueblo) and passionate supporter of Native youth.
One week from today, a major event will highlight the important need to fight one of [...]

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You are cordially invited to attend the South Dakotan’s for Health Care
Solutions and Western South Dakota Native American Organizing Project’s “Native Health Equity Roundtable” discussion next Tuesday, June 9th, from Noon until 3:00 pm at thePejuta Haka College Center in Kyle. Lunch will be served at noon.
Confirmed panelists includeDr. Don Warne, Executive Director of the [...]

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Arizona reports 2nd death tied to swine flu
by Eddi Trevizo – May. 20, 2009 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic
Arizona learned of its second H1N1-flu related death on the same day a Phoenix Elementary School announced it would close for the week due to a flu outbreak.
Authorities said Tuesday that a 57-year-old woman who lived in the [...]

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Eagle Butte hospital leads IHS funding in state
By Journal staff | Friday, May 15, 2009
The Eagle Butte Health Care Center is one of two Indian Health Service construction projects to receive funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Newly sworn IHS Director Dr. Yvette Roubideaux, a Rapid City Stevens graduate, announced the allocations Friday, along [...]

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New Pine Ridge healthy cafe offers teens jobs
By The Associated Press
Friday, May 15, 2009
KYLE — A café opening this summer in Kyle on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation offers healthy food for customers and employment for American Indian young people.
The E-Tanka Café is the result of a partnership between Native American Natural Foods and a [...]

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South Dakotans For Health Care Solutions!
For Immediate Release [...]

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Native American death rates soar as most people are living longerBabies die at a rate 44% higher than decade agoBy VANESSA HOP-I REPORTER
(Editor’s Note: This story has been altered to explain more clearly which organization has launched a five-year plan to reduce suicides among Native Americans.)
U.S. health care costs too much, delivers too little, a [...]

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Umatilla tribe bases land-management strategy on preserving foodsby Richard Cockle, The Oregonian Saturday February 28, 2009, 10:02 PM
PENDLETON — Traditional foods are so important to the Umatilla, Walla Walla and Cayuse tribes that they’ve centered their entire land-management strategy on protecting them.
The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation have adopted what they say [...]

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