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Independence through Access « Native News

WebBut funding for IHS is a continual problem. The IHS budget for the 2021 fiscal year is $6.2 billion, in comparison to 2020 when it was $6 billion. Based on IHS data from 2015-2020, …

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Inner Strength « Native News

WebInner Strength. Healing a mental health crisis through culture. Ryle Monteau sits in a car outside his home in Hays, Montana, on the Fort Belknap reservation. Since the 2019 …

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Native News Project 2017 University of Montana

WebStory by Lucy Tompkins, photos by Adam McCaw When Jean Bear found out she was pregnant, she did what all women in Hays, Montana must do: She drove 82 miles across …

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The Sovereign Bodies Institute

WebLuchessi: Sovereign Bodies Institute is a nonprofit research institute. We’re focused on community-based research on gender and sexual violence against Indigenous people. …

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Native News Project 2017 University of Montana

WebState officials believe that a little less than half of Montana’s population of 70,000 Native Americans live in urban areas. Urban American Indians are described as the “invisible …

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Banking On A Bandaid « Native News

WebThe Missoula Urban Indian Health Center, which changed its name to All Nations Health Center on May 1, had received $45,000 to defray costs associated with screening and …

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Native News Project 2017 University of Montana

WebStory by Courtney Brockman, photos by Sydney MacDonald She never thought to seek out mental health services before. Not even when she started losing family members. …

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Indian Education on the Fort Belknap Reservation

WebTo four adults on the Fort Belknap Reservation, $20,000 meant the chance at a four-year education, a chance to earn a degree, a chance to make things better for the 3,500 …

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GROWING OUR OWN Health care grads make returning to Fort …

WebStory by Andy Bixler, photos by Ken Rand Earning a college degree in the medicine field is hard enough. Consider the finances, the rigorous course curriculum, long hours. So, …

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Blackfeet Native News Project 2013 Native News Project 2013

WebIt’s a cozy home in the country on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. It’s full of pictures of his family, going all the way back to the early 20th century. Truman Hall and his wife, Joy, …

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FEAR NEXT DOOR The man camp connection

WebAries Residence Suites can house 300 residents. The camp is located near North Dakota’s western border and about an hour and a half drive east from the limits of the Fort Peck …

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Fort Belknap Native News Project 2013 Native News Project 2013

WebThe average life expectancy for American Indians living on Montana reservations is 67 — markedly lower than the United States average of 77. “Indian Health used to be, not …

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Native News Project 2017 University of Montana

WebStory by Olga Kreimer, photos by Olivia Vanni When TroyLnn Shotgunn was 48 years old, she decided to give the nursing home a try. It was more than a decade after rheumatoid …

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An abandoned daughter searches to fill the inner emptiness

WebStory by Marnie Craig, Photos by Luke Nicholson Natasha Rondeau holds herself a bit taller when people tell her she is like her mom. Like her mother, she is small in stature and …

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Rocky Boy’s Native News Project 2013 Native News Project 2013

WebThe new Rocky Boy’s health center was supposed to be finished in spring of 2013. It has since been delayed and remains $15 million short from completion. The medical center …

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Native News Project 2017 University of Montana

WebStory by Noah Rott, photos by Reed Klass The cycle was simple. And cruel. When they stopped using pain pills, they’d need meth to feel better. When they stopped using meth, …

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Native News Project 2017 University of Montana

WebTo fix the reservation’s water issues, Tribal Water Resources Director Dustin White has been pushing to finish construction on a pipeline to bring water from Lake Elwell, also …

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LEFT BEHIND Growing up in the shadow of the MMIW Crisis

WebOf course, grief comes in many forms and is specific to each person, but grief within children is much more complicated. There is no way to say how a child will react to death and …

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Native News Project 2017 University of Montana

WebYet, most reservations are rural and considered “food deserts,” where fresh produce is expensive and scarce. Patients must rely on a crowded and underfunded IHS system, …

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