House Needs to Act on Indian Health Care
Additional health services needed The House could vote soon on the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (H.R. 1328). The bill, which governs the health care provided to 1.8 million Native Americans, has not been reauthorized since 1992.
The Senate voted on February 26 to approve the legislation. The House should act now to give American Indians and Alaska Natives access to services long available in the rest of the country. The programs include mental health services, long-term care, and hospice.
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Native American Trust Fund Scandal
When the U.S. government took control of Native Americans’ property rights in 1887, Indians were assured they would receive all the income from their land. They never did. According to accounts from whistle-blowers, money belonging to individual Indians was pilfered, skimmed, redirected, or thrown in with general government funds by the U.S. Department of the Interior or its appointed representatives.
In 1996 banker Elouise Cobell filed a class action lawsuit charging that the government mismanaged more than $100 billion in oil, timber, grazing, and other royalties on land owned by some 500,000 individual Indian beneficiaries. The courts have repeatedly ruled in Cobell's favor, most recently in January 2008. The next hearing is scheduled for June 9, 2008.
Read a short summary and more about the Cobell case.
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