by Katherine Huggins and Julia Mueller | May 24, 2022 | Featured, Health, Urban Indian Healthcare
MINNEAPOLIS — Tucked away on a side street near downtown, the Mashkiki Waakaa’igan Pharmacy offers its Native American clientele the services of any ordinary drugstore — it dispenses critical medication and provides consultation on treatments. But there are two key...
by Ariel Gans and Katherine Huggins | May 24, 2022 | Education, Featured, Urban Indian Healthcare
MINNEAPOLIS — Bison pastrami is not typical school lunch fare, but it’s a crowd favorite at a preschool in Minneapolis. Fawn Youngbear-Tibbetts — the seemingly always on-the-go coordinator of Indigenous foods at the Wicoie Nandagikendan Early Childhood Urban Immersion...
by Jordan Anderson | May 24, 2022 | Health, Urban Indian Healthcare
May 2, 2022 – Edwina Valdo found herself on the receiving end of a desperate phone call last year on the suicide crisis line at Acoma Pueblo Behavioral Health Services in New Mexico. Valdo, whose regular job is as a grant manager, was filling in because the pandemic...
by Julia Shapero and Michael Korsh | May 1, 2022 | Health, Urban Indian Healthcare
Health-care organizations that support Native Americans living in urban areas receive minimal federal funding, even though more than 70 percent of the U.S. Native population lives in metropolitan areas. The 41 Indian health organizations serving them, which the...
by Catherine Buchaniec and Julia Shapero | Apr 30, 2022 | Politics, Urban Indian Healthcare
Laz Carreon was on parental leave helping care for his newborn daughter when a mysterious respiratory illness first appeared in Wuhan, China. As the illness spread through China, it caught his attention. An experienced registered nurse and former National Guard...
by Jeannie Kopstein and Annie Klingenberg | Apr 26, 2022 | Urban Indian Healthcare
According to Native medical students, there are immense financial and systematic barriers in the way of native students pursuing careers in the medical field. Groups like the American Indian Center of Chicago and the Association of Native Medical Students are...
