Articles from the April 23, 2013 edition
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Finding hope on the Rosebud Indian Reservation
Statistics often don’t tell the whole story. In the case of the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where I traveled last month to write an article for today’s issue of Inside Stanford Medicine, statistics tell a horrifying story. The average life expectancy among the 9,000 residents of the Lakota Sioux tribe is 47 years for the average male, compared to 77 years...
OPINION: Killing Indians
Recently, in a photo essay entitled, “Here's what life is like on the notorious Wind River Indian Reservation,” the online Business Insider gave a tour of the sprawling central Wyoming home of the Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone tribes....
Shiprock community makes over its image for Earth Day
SHIPROCK — Tired of seeing plastic bags blowing in the wind and glass shards glittering in the sun, more than 1,000 Shiprock residents worked to clean up their town on Monday, Earth Day....
Health Care And Indian Country
There is much debate going on across this country regarding changes being proposed to create greater access (for poor to medium income folks) to affordable health. From the American Indian perspective, all this debate seems a bit irrelevant since the Indian Health Service (IHS) is the primary health care provider for Indian people who live on or near the res...
University of Oklahoma School of Law launches online program in Indigenous Peoples Law
NORMAN — The University of Oklahoma School of Law is launching a new program designed to help American Indian tribal officials and others navigate the legal landscape in Indian Country....
Stolen car sought in Ute Reservation homicide investigation
The Uintah County Sheriff’s Office is asking the public to be on the lookout for a vehicle believed stolen from a man whose body was found Sunday afternoon on northeastern Utah’s Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation....
