2022 Health & Welfare News Stories
Choctaws fight to preserve authority over Native American adoptions (Mississippi Today) 12/19/22
California steps up efforts to stem violence against Native Americans (Merced County Times) 12/19/22
BIA, FBI update criminal investigation guidelines for Indian Country (Arizona Mirror) 12/13/22
Lake County approves resolution to withdraw from law enforcement agreement (Missoulian) 12/12/22
The long history of Native American adoptions (Harper's Bazaar) 11/30/22
California Tribal Families Coalition establishes “The California ICWA Institute” think tank (Native News Online) 11/22/22
Utah lawmakers want to protect Native American adoptions — no matter how the Supreme Court rules (Salt Lake Tribune) 11/16/22
A SCOTUS ruling could overturn the Indian Child Welfare Act. Here's what that means (Nevada Public Radio) 11/16/22
The fate of ICWA (Native America Calling) 11/10/22
Justices seem to favor most of Indian Child Welfare Act (Indian Country Today) 11/9/22
Alaska could see effects of Indian Child Welfare Act challenge heard by Supreme Court (Alaska Public Media) 11/9/22
Supreme Court struggles with a case dealing with the rights of Native American tribes (NPR) 11/9/22
The Indian Child Welfare Act: What it is and what’s at stake (Native News Online) 11/9/22
The Supreme Court will decide the future of Native American foster children (Time) 11/9/22
Supreme Court considers fate of landmark Indian adoption law (NPR) 11/8/22
The Supreme Court case that could break Native American sovereignty (The Atlantic) 11/8/22
The high stakes in a Supreme Court case about American Indian children (Vox) 11/8/22
Clarence Thomas may destroy Native children’s rights based on a lie (Slate) 11/7/22
For decades, welfare laws kept Native American families together. Will the Supreme Court end them? (The Guardian) 11/7/22
Why are right-wing groups targeting a law aimed at protecting Native families? (Mother Jones) 11/7/22
US has fraught history with Native adoption. Enter the Supreme Court. (Christian Science Monitor) 11/7/22
Supreme Court takes up the Indian Child Welfare Act (Indian Country Today) 11/7/22
Race question in Supreme Court adoption case unnerves tribes (New York Times) 11/7/22
The Indian Child Welfare Act saved a generation of children. The Supreme Court is poised to gut it. (romper) 11/3/22
Indian country braces for U.S. Supreme Court hearing in ICWA case (Indianz) 11/1/22
The fate of Indian child welfare before the Supreme Court: Race, commerce and commandeering (The Imprint) 10/31/22
IHS awards $180,000 in self-governance grants to three tribes (Native News Online) 10/25/22
Tribal leaders vow to protect their families from separation as Indian Child Welfare law heads to the Supreme Court (The Imprint) 10/17/22
Brackeen v. Haaland and the Indian Child Welfare Act (Hownikan Podcast) 10/13/22
FEMA announces first national tribal affairs advocate (Native News Online) 10/12/22
The Indian Child Welfare Act will be before the US Supreme Court next month (The Sound of Ideas) 10/10/22
U of M professors outline what’s at stake for tribes with pivotal adoption law before SCOTUS (Iosco County News-Herald) 10/10/22
Minnesota adoption fight over White Earth child helped spur U.S. Supreme Court case (MinnPost) 10/7/22
Current Supreme Court term could impact South Dakota tribes (Siouxland Proud) 10/4/22
Yurok Tribe hosts summit on missing and murdered indigenous people (Del Norte Triplicate) 10/4/22
Can Indian Country withstand the new Supreme Court? (High Country News) 10/1/22
Roselyn Tso confirmed as IHS director (Navajo-Hopi Observer) 9/27/22
Tribal law enforcement boosted under proposed bill (Indian Country Today) 9/26/22
Cortez Masto, Gallego introduce BADGES Act to strengthen tribal law enforcement (
Native News Online) 9/22/22Northern Arapaho tribe asks Wyoming for a state ICWA law as U.S. Supreme Court decision looms (
Wyoming Public Radio) 9/16/22
Tribes wait for Supreme Court decision in ICWA case (Navajo-Hopi Observer) 9/13/22
Urban American Indian communities may soon get better access to healthcare (KRTV) 8/29/22
First-of-its-kind survey examines trauma and healing among Indigenous survivors of family separation (The Imprint) 8/29/22
Supporters of the Indian Child Welfare Act send 21 briefs to U.S. Supreme Court (Native News Online) 8/23/22
Abortion Was Already Inaccessible on Reservation Land. Dobbs Made Things Worse (Mother Jones) 8/12/22
National Indian Health Board announces A.C. Locklear as new Federal Relations Director (Indian Country Today) 8/10/22
FBI works with partners to improve reporting of missing Indigenous persons in New Mexico, Navajo Nation (Grant County Beat) 7/25/22
NCAI's open letter to Pope Francis on Indian residential schools (Native News Online) 7/25/22
Gaps hinder police response to Indigenous cases (Indian Country Today) 7/24/22
Native people still outsized share of homeless (Indian Country Today) 7/22/22
Bill affecting Native youth treatment center nears passage in Congress (Indianz) 7/18/22
How ancestral knowledge can help incarcerated Natives (Crosscut) 7/18/22
Justice lags for Indigenous survivors of violence (The Bend Bulletin) 7/16/22
How Indian boarding schools have impacted generations (Native News Online) 7/15/22
After decades of outlawed culture, a Tulalip revival (Indian Country Today) 7/14/22
Tulalip Tribes sues Juul, claiming e-cigarette maker targeted youth with ‘deceptive’ ads (Seattle Times) 7/11/22
Truth and Reconciliation Commission launch in Michigan (Indian Country Today) 7/11/22
California bills aims to increase availability of tribal foster homes (The Imprint) 7/7/22
Abortion care has a long history among Hawai'i's Indigenous people (Native News Online) 7/5/22
Washington State Patrol rolls out new alert system to locate missing Native Americans (The Spokesman-Review) 7/2/22
For Indigenous peoples, abortion is a religious right (Yes! Magazine) 6/30/22
The Indian Country abortion safe harbor fallacy (LPE Project) 6/6/22
Long before Roe v. Wade was overturned, Indigenous women faced barriers to abortion (KOSU) 6/28/22
Women of Indian Country respond to the overturning of Roe v. Wade (Native News Online) 6/27/22
A museum exhibit in Sheridan tells the story of Native American healthcare on Montana reservations (Wyoming Public Radio) 6/23/22
Nooni Project aims to reclaim breastfeeding among tribes (Traverse City Record-Eagle) 6/18/22
Closure of veteran clinics across New Mexico opposed by Navajo Nation leaders (Indian Country Today) 6/10/22
Casey Family Programs honors 10 people from across the nation who are working to improve child and family well-being (Yahoo! Finance) 6/10/22
Ojibwe educator, Illinois Native organization granted $50,000 to further social justice work (Native News Online) 6/9/22
Tribal council awarded grant (The Mining Journal) 6/8/22
Walking where my grandmother walked: My journey to the Genoa US Indian Industrial School (Native News Online) 6/5/22
Oklahoma City Indian Clinic promotes LGBTQ+ health during Pride Month (Indian Country Today) 6/3/22
Connecticut codifies child welfare protections for Native American families in state law (The Imprint) 6/2/22
Leonard Peltier shares his Indian boarding school story (Native News Online) 6/1/22
Combining old and new: Aquaponics opens the door to Indigenous food security (Yes! Magazine) 5/31/22
Bridging the Indigenous digital divide (Traverse City Record-Eagle) 5/29/22
Some Tununak residents have been living without internet for over 3 months (Alaska Public Media) 5/27/22
Lakota nurse spotlights need for diversity (Navajo Times) 5/25/22
The Blackfeet Nation’s struggles underscore the fentanyl crisis on Native American reservations (Montana Public Radio) 5/24/22
Federal Indian boarding school system intentionally sought to destroy Native families (Native News Online) 5/22/22
Choctaw Nation declares May 'Foster Care Awareness Month' (Tahlequah Daily Press) 5/21/22
Class-action lawsuit says state is failing Alaska foster kids (Alaska Public Media) 5/20/22
StrongHearts Native Helpline publishes state reports on intimate partner violence impacting Native Americans and Alaska Natives (Native News Online) 5/20/22
U.S. Supreme Court Samuel Alito’s history of abortion differs from historians and Indigenous reproductive leaders (The NM Political Report) 5/20/22
The never-ending maze: Continued failure to protect Indigenous women from sexual violence in the USA (Amnesty International)
‘Metrics of economic well-being’ show Native Americans underserved (Indian Country Today) 5/13/22
Indigenous women on Roe v. Wade (Native News Online) 5/13/22
Data genocide, maternal mortality, and a return to tradition (Native News Online) 5/13/22
Here’s what a federal report says about the Native American boarding schools in Utah (The Salt Lake Tribune) 5/12/22
Native reproductive justice: Practices and policies from relinquishment to family preservation (Harvard Law Bill of Health) 5/12/22
Voices of Indian adoption (Harvard Law Bill of Health) 5/12/22
The Indian Child Welfare Act: Preserving families is in children's best interests (Harvard Law Bill of Health) 5/12/22
Census undercount threatens federal food, health programs on reservations (High Country News) 5/12/22
Ginnie Graham: Complicated landscape for tribal nations wanting to offer abortion safe haven (Tulsa World) 5/12/22
Chief Hoskin, Deputy Chief Warner announce $500 monthly transition stipend for Cherokee youth ‘aging out’ of foster system (Indian Country Today) 5/11/22
The Assistant Secretary releases Boarding School Report (Turtle Talk) 5/11/22
How a Lakota nurse uses trauma-informed care to help her community heal (Native News Online) 5/10/22
Montana must do more for Indigenous healthcare access (Flathead Beacon) 5/10/22
Tlingit and Haida partner with Native-owned company to develop new internet provider (Tribal Business News) 5/9/22
Cherokee Nation hires criminal investigator to work missing and murdered Indigenous people cases (KOSU) 5/6/22
Tribes awarded $77 million for internet infrastructure (Native News Online) 5/4/22
Adapting a zero suicide approach to Native communities (Medscape) 5/3/22
Supreme Court could halt access to safe abortions, Indigenous activists say (Indian Country Today) 5/3/22
Ńtsáhakees Silah’igii Baa ‘Áhayá - Navajo Nation Mental Health Awareness Month (Native News Online) 5/2/22
Researchers unearth the painful history of a Native boarding school in Missouri (PBS) 4/28/22
Health clinics serving Native Americans in cities grapple with limited funding, scare resources (Native News Online) 4/27/22
Despite federal infrastructure funds, many Navajo families waiting for utilities are in the dark (The Salt Lake Tribune) 4/27/22
Indian Health Service announces $5 million in funding for ending the HIV epidemic (Native News Online) 4/26/22
Addressing Technology Needs in Native Communities Workshop on May 3 and May 4 (Indian Country Today) 4/25/22
Young Native woman sounds alarm about safety in Indian Country (Indianz) 4/22/22
How blending Inuit knowledge and western science has helped improve polar bear health — and why a trade ban would hurt (The Conversation) 4/18/22
Ronnie Jo Horse: Ensure the health of our state's Native communities (The Missoulian) 4/17/22
Community members needed to help improve Minnesota child welfare policies and practices (Indian Country Today) 4/15/22
What will it take to end violence against Native women? (Boston Review) 4/13/22
Indian Health Service and Little Shell Tribe open new health center in Great Falls, Montana (Indian Country Today) 4/8/22
Oklahoma’s abortion bill & Indigenous impact (Indian Country Today) 4/6/22
Nationwide alert system created for missing Indigenous persons (Northwest Public Radio) 4/5/22
17-member tribal consortium aims big in Southwest Alaska broadband proposal (Tribal Business News) 4/4/22
For Lac du Flambeau, healing is remembering their boarding school experience (Native News Online) 3/28/22
FAQS for payments by Indian tribal governments and Alaska Native corporations to individuals under COVID-relief legislation (Turtle Talk) 3/30/33
OPINION: I fought for justice for 5 years after I was sexually assaulted. The work isn’t finished. (Anchorage Daily News) 3/28/22
Biden administration moves to make funding for Indian Health Service mandatory (The New York Times) 3/28/22
'You're going to know who my daughter was': Families demand justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women (KQED) 3/26/22
City of Nome to pay $750K and apologize for failure to investigate sexual assault against Native woman (Turtle Talk) 3/24/22
Recasting the narrative: RISE Center gives voice to Indigenous people in research, data collection (Tribal Business News) 3/21/22
Native WOLFE program bridges gaps in elder health with nutrition, exercise (Native News Online) 3/19/22
VAWA 2022 White House fact sheet (Turtle Talk) 3/17/22
Deb Haaland: Report on Indigenous boarding schools expected soon (Bangor Daily News) 3/16/22
Navajo Nation receives $8 million in federal funding for cancer treatment center (Native News Online) 3/14/22
Tribes see progress with Violence Against Women Act and more funding (Indianz) 3/14/22
Roselyn Tso nominated to serve as Director of Indian Health Service (Native News Online) 3/9/22
New Mexico adopts state ICWA law: Indian Family Preservation Act (IFPA) (Turtle Talk Blog) 3/7/22
Native American veterans encompass resilience, overcome health care challenges (Air Force Times) 3/7/22
Native-owned healthcare makes a difference in Alaska (Indian Country Today) 3/2/22
New legislation aimed at improving support for tribal foster youth (Lake County News) 3/1/22
Indian Health Service Rapid City Service Unit transfer to the tribally-managed Oyate Health Center (Indian Country Today) 2/28/22
Four national Native organizations statement of U.S. Supreme hearing challenge to ICWA (Native News Online) 2/28/22
Waš’ágya Nájiŋ/Grandmothers Group kicks off survey of grandparents taking care of grandchildren (West River Eagle) 2/24/22
The first answer for food insecurity: data sovereignty (The Counter) 2/23/22
New Mexico’s first Native family court points to success keeping kids in tribal communities (Youth Today) 2/21/22
Cultural adaptation of the mothers and babies intervention for use in tribal communities (Frontiers in Psychiatry) 2/17/22
Chief Seattle Club housing project rooted in Indigenous culture (Crosscut) 2/16/22
Rising health needs drives new Minnesota effort to draw Native students to medical school (Pine Journal) 2/15/22
‘A BIG DEAL:’ Tribal libraries qualify for discounted broadband after FCC updates eligibility rules (Tribal Business News) 2/14/22
Redefining community health: Diné get free boxes of N95 at mobile vaccine clinic (Navajo Times) 2/10/22
Aging well for Indigenous peoples: A scoping review (Frontiers in Public Health) 2/10/22
National Indigenous Women's Resource Center's statement in support of victim-survivors of sexual abuse & domestic violence (Native News Online) 2/10/22
Be mindful of children’s mental health amid COVID-19 (Indian Country Today) 2/7/22
New nursing degree brings Fort Lewis College, CU Anschutz together to teach Indigenous-focused health curriculum (Colorado Daily) 2/7/22
Indian Child Welfare Act passes house with bipartisan support (The Grant County Beat) 2/6/22
'It took an entire tribe to raise me' (The Santa Fe New Mexican) 2/5/22
Opioid settlement "historic for tribes," says Eastern Shoshone chairman (Wyoming Public Radio) 2/4/22
Tribal groups want to boost traditional diets in federal food aid (The Wichita Eagle) 2/4/22
A grassroots effort to regain food sovereignty (South Dakota Public Broadcasting) 2/4/22
How NAU is helping reduce health inequities among Indigenous populations (NAU News) 2/3/22
WA is working on an Amber Alert for missing Indigenous people (Crosscut) 2/3/22
Tribes reach $590 million opioid settlement with J.&J. and distributors (The New York Times) 2/1/22
Native News Online announces news desk dedicated to Native American health (Native News Online) 2/1/22
Increasing the supply of healthcare for Native Americans (Mercatus Center - George Mason University) 1/31/22
Tribes assume control of tribal healthcare (Lakota Times) 1/27/22
Navajo Nation hosts Human Trafficking Awareness Walk (KSL News Radio) 1/27/22
Hanna hired for ICWA cases (Lakota Times) 1/27/22
Tribal survey captures deepening food insecurity in Indian Country that federal data has missed (Wyoming Public Radio) 1/27/22
Native women face the highest rates of stalking, and it leads to 'missing and murdered' (Native News Online) 1/25/22
Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah celebrates new health care center, brings additional resources to Cedar City (The Salt Lake Tribune) 1/21/22
Quit Week provides an opportunity to give up smoking (Indian Country Today) 1/20/22
Reducing Native overrepresentation in jails (Indian Country Today) 1/19/22
South Dakota Indigenous community ‘disproportionately’ affected by COVID-19 (Siouxland Proud) 1/19/22
Facing rising COVID-19 case numbers, the Navajo Nation issues new tribal public health orders (The Durango Herald) 1/17/22
'The clinic, it's going to be the heart of it all' (High Country News) 1/17/22
NM’s ICWA proposal born of tribes, Pueblos, nations (Navajo Times) 1/17/22
Forced adoptions to promote assimilation decimated Indigenous families, left deep scars (The Oregonian) 1/16/22
Vicious circle: Tribal broadband program hindered by lack of broadband (Indianz) 1/14/22
Year after lawmakers ordered it, still no liaison for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (South Dakota Public Broadcasting) 1/12/22
Churches starting to face facts on boarding schools (Indian Country Today) 1/10/22
IllumiNative launches 'Aunties with Antibodies' series to promote COVID-19 vaccinations (Native News Online) 1/6/22
Senators push act that seeks justice for Native survivors of sexual violence (Mille Lacs Messenger) 1/6/22
As tribes wait for investigation to conclude, debate over Indian schools continues (Cronkite News Arizona PBS) 1/5/22
Alert system proposed for missing Indigenous women (Native News Online) 1/4/22
New report examines health disparities among Indigenous peoples in NYC (Native News Online) 1/3/22
