Biden administration faces another test of commitment to Indian Country with health care case

A deadline is fast approaching for the Joe Biden administration to live up to its promise to improve the federal government’s relationship with tribes and their citizens.

In August, the Rosebud Sioux Tribe won a major victory in a long-running lawsuit against the United States. The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie requires the federal government to provide “competent physician-led healthcare” to the Sioux Nation and its people, many of whom often suffer from substandard services on their homelands.

“This decision is an important acknowledgment of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe’s treaty rights as well as every other tribe that signed on to the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868,” then-president Rodney Bordeaux said at the time of the August 25 decision. “As the court noted, the federal government must do better.”

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