• This article examines the unethical research of American Indians/Alaska Natives in light of the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male. (researchgate.net)
  • Literature citations indicate that significant unethical research and medical care incidents occurred both before and after the Tuskegee Syphilis Study among American Indians/Alaska Natives. (researchgate.net)
  • American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians have served in the United States Armed Forces in every military conflict since America's founding. (indianpueblo.org)
  • American Indian and Alaska Natives (AIAN) serve at a higher rate and have a higher concentration of female service members than all other service members. (indianpueblo.org)
  • Of these, 1783 (0.3%) occurred in American Indians and Alaskan Natives (AI/ANs). (cdc.gov)
  • Native Americans and Alaskan Natives comprise about 6% of North Dakota's population, according the U.S. Census Bureau, compared to less than 2% of the U.S. population as a whole. (minoritynurse.com)
  • and 3) for the 25 states in which surveillance was conducted during 1994-1997 for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and AIDS, compares the characteristics of AI/ANs who had reported HIV infection (without AIDS) with those of AI/ANs who had AIDS. (cdc.gov)
  • For the 25 states in which HIV case surveillance was conducted during 1994-1997 (i.e., the years for which comparable data were available by sex, age, and HIV-exposure mode), characteristics of AI/ANs who had HIV (without AIDS) were compared with those who had AIDS. (cdc.gov)
  • Although President Clinton issued a highly visible public apology to the African American survivors of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment in 1997, American Indians have yet to experience such visible federal acknowledgment. (researchgate.net)
  • November is National Native American Heritage Month , a time to celebrate the rich and diverse cultures, traditions, values, and histories of Indigenous peoples throughout the United States of America. (indianpueblo.org)
  • President Joe Biden proclaims November 2021 as National Native American Heritage Month and Friday, November 26, 2021 as Native American Heritage Day. (indianpueblo.org)
  • Topics from the Origins of Native American Military Service, various conflicts from the Civil War to the Middle East, Code Talkers, Native women and WWII, and the National Native American Veterans Memorial. (indianpueblo.org)
  • The disproportionate devastation COVID-19 is having in Native American communities lays bare the U.S. government's systemic failure to meet its trust and treaty obligations. (americanprogress.org)
  • The Indian Health Service, a federally funded agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary health care provider and advocate for approximately 1.9 million of the nation's 3.3 million American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) people. (minoritynurse.com)
  • This exhibition highlights the ways in which American Indians have been part of the nation's identity since before the country began. (indianpueblo.org)
  • During the 1970s, landmark legislation such as the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act gave tribes the option of contracting with IHS to operate and manage their health care services themselves, rather than receiving services directly from the agency. (minoritynurse.com)
  • People in rural America, therefore, disproportionately depend on individual plans, which often require costly premiums and deductibles. (news-medical.net)
  • Today the Indian Health Service provides a comprehensive system of health care services to AI/AN people living on or near tribal reservations, in rural communities and in urban settings. (minoritynurse.com)
  • Through both federally operated and tribally contracted health programs, the Indian Health Service's goal is to ensure that all AI/AN people throughout the U.S. can receive health care that is accessible, comprehensive and-most importantly-culturally acceptable. (minoritynurse.com)
  • The thing that is distinct about working for the Indian Health Service, besides the fact that it is a federal agency with a direct clinical service delivery mission, is the fact that the American Indian/Alaska Native people still have much of their [traditional] culture intact," says Carolyn Aoyama, CNM, RN, MPH, the agency's senior consultant for women's health. (minoritynurse.com)
  • in Wyoming, AI/AN people are less than 3 percent of the state population but make up more than one-third of its cases. (americanprogress.org)
  • Diabetes now affects nearly 24 million people in the United States, and another 57 million people are estimated to have prediabetes. (medscape.com)
  • A 1787 agreement between tribes and the government gave the U.S. 'an obligation… to provide American Indians with free health care on reservations. (news-medical.net)
  • Federally recognized tribes in the state are the Spirit Lake Tribe (formerly the Devil's Lake Sioux), the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, and the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. (minoritynurse.com)
  • There are more than 560 federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native tribes located throughout the United States. (minoritynurse.com)
  • By 1921, the Snyder Act authorized the use of federal funds to provide health services to federally recognized tribes, which are sovereign nations that have a government-to-government relationship with the United States. (minoritynurse.com)
  • for Indian tribes throughout the United States. (minoritynurse.com)
  • Tribal gaming revenues are equivalent to state tax revenues, and federal law requires tribes to use these to fund tribal government operations and programs. (americanprogress.org)
  • Tribes ceded huge swaths of land to the United States with the formal, treaty-enshrined understanding that the federal government would protect the tribes as sovereign political entities whose right to self-governance it would safeguard and to whom it would provide adequate resources to deliver essential services. (americanprogress.org)
  • The National Museum of the American Indian's Native Cinema Showcase is an annual celebration of the best in Native film. (indianpueblo.org)
  • The health statistics in Indian country are 'staggering. (news-medical.net)
  • It occasionally uses terms such as "Native," "tribal," and "Indian Country" in keeping with the conventions through which AI/AN communities refer to themselves. (americanprogress.org)
  • The COVID-19 pandemic's disproportionate and devastating harm to American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities is a direct and damning consequence of the U.S. government's failure to uphold its legal trust and treaty obligations to Indian Country. (americanprogress.org)
  • In a long feature story, the Associated Press reports that the Indian Health Service System, 'which serves almost 2 million American Indians in 35 states,' often provides 'grossly substandard care. (news-medical.net)
  • Last year the IHS received a $500 million allocation of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to help pay for new health care facilities, health information technology, medical equipment and other improvements in the delivery of health care to AI/AN communities. (minoritynurse.com)
  • The majority of these unethical abuses were committed by the federal government and within the historical context of a long-term contentious relationship between American Indians and the federal government. (researchgate.net)
  • long-term contentious relationship between American Indians and the federal government. (researchgate.net)
  • This report mostly uses the census-defined term "American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN)" in keeping with the majority of AI/AN organizations. (americanprogress.org)
  • This article reviews the history of medical and research abuses experienced by American Indians since European colonization. (researchgate.net)
  • American history begins on the East Coast and pushes the Indians west, to extinction. (indianpueblo.org)
  • Results of search for 'su:{Indians, North American. (who.int)
  • He 'often travels to Washington to lobby for more money and attention,' but says his tribe is 'not one congruent voting bloc in any one state or area…so we don't have the political clout. (news-medical.net)
  • This is the foundation of the government-to-government relationship that exists between the federal government and tribal nations, which function not as racial groups but as sovereign political entities to whom the United States has a recognized trust and treaty responsibility embodied in the Constitution, treaties, and federal statutes. (americanprogress.org)
  • The prevalence of prediabetes and diabetes are higher in certain ethnic groups, including Latinos and American Indians. (medscape.com)
  • Ron His Horse is Thunder, chairman of the Standing Rock tribe, 'says his remote reservation on the border between North Dakota and South Dakota can't attract or maintain doctors who know what they are doing. (news-medical.net)
  • This summer, the University of North Dakota College of Nursing conducted three four-day tours across North and South Dakota, Minnesota, and Nebraska, visiting American Indian reservations in an effort to recruit potential nursing students. (minoritynurse.com)
  • While residents of reservations qualify for Medicare and Medicaid coverage, 'a report by the Government Accountability Office last year found that many American Indians have not applied for those programs because of lack of access to the sign-up process. (news-medical.net)
  • American Indians have an infant death rate that is 40 percent higher than the rate for whites. (news-medical.net)
  • How is it that Indians can be so present and so absent in American life? (indianpueblo.org)
  • American Indian programs are not a priority for Congress, which provided the health service with $3.6 billion this budget year. (news-medical.net)
  • Yet images and names of Indians are everywhere. (indianpueblo.org)
  • Gallery of images over two centuries related to Native Americans and their military service. (indianpueblo.org)
  • Island of the Blue Dolphins tells the story of an American Indian girl stranded on an island, alone, for 18 years. (teachervision.com)
  • Sponsored by the University's Recruitment and Retention of American Indians into Nursing Program (RAIN), the tours gave students on the reservations a glimpse at the nursing program and all it has to offer, says program coordinator Deb Wilson. (minoritynurse.com)