Windows Rock, Arizona Windows-Arizona-Navaho-state leaders talked with the US government’s top health officials, hiking along the sandstone ridge overlooking the country’s expensive village before the morning sun became too hot.
Buu Nygren, president of Navaho’s four countries, paused with Robert F. Kennedy Jr..
NYGREN said that Kennedy wants to see the capital of about 400,000 registered countries. The tribe pointed out that the Federal Fund would be delayed by the government project to the antique health center, which would help to replace and explain the lives of thousands of local residents without watering.
NYGREN said Kennedy has already done a lot. Mainly A series of employee health services cut the ripples through the federal government.
“When we started listening to dismissal and freezing, you were the first person to stand up for Indian countries,” he said.
But NYGREN and other NAVAJO leaders said that the cuts of federal health programs outside India’s health services are harming the native Americans.
Cherilyn yazzie, Navajo Council delegate, said,
Kennedy has repeatedly promised the health care priority of native Americans. But the Native Americans and health officials across the country say that this offering has become dark due to incidental damage, from large -scale cuts to federal health programs.
The decrease in reduced reduction in the indicators of the Americas or unbalanced dependence. The tribal health leaders said that the data was omitted and the communication was not good due to the reduction of employee.
Indian health services offer free health care at hospitals and clinics, and as a group, the proportion of chronic diseases is higher and younger than other populations offer free health care for Native Americans. Such inequality is due to that Systematic discrimination of centuries. However, many tribes do not live near the agency clinic or hospital. And those who do can face limited services, chronic under funding and lack of employees. To solve this gap, the health agency depends on other federal funding programs.
LIZ Malerba, an expert in deficiency policy of Mohegan’s deficiency, said, “There may be misunderstandings among some executives that Indian countries are affected only by changes in Indian health services.” It’s not simply true. “
The tribe has lost more than $ 6 million from other HHS institutions, National Indian Health Board. I wrote it in the May letter To Kennedy.
JANET Alkire, Dakotas Standing Rock SIOUX Chairman, On May 14, I said at the Senate Committee hearing These subsidies paid for community health workers, vaccinations, data modernization and other public health efforts.
The government has also canceled the funds for a program that claimed that Donald Trump violated the ban on “diversity, equity and inclusion.” Native of Native Other people who are interested in science and medicine and help many tribes Increase access to healthy foods -Kennedy said he wanted to prioritize.
The tribal health officials said that federal employees were cut, making it more difficult to support technical support and money for federal funding health projects.
The dismissal was reduced or removed from the relevant program. Prevention of overdose In the tribal community Using traditional food and medicine Fight chronic diseases and help low -income people You can heat and cool your house Through low -income home energy program.
The OGLALA SIOUX tribe is located in South Dakota, and the native Americans who are struggling to heat their homes died of hypothermia. Until mid -May, the tribe was unable to access the latest funding of the energy program, according to the tribe, John Long.
Abigail Echo-Hawk, director of the Seattle Indian Health Committee’s Urban Indian Health Institute, said the government sent her incomplete health data. This includes statistics on native Americans at risk of suicide and drug disorders, which are used to form public health policies and programs.
Echo-Hawk said, “We will die because we can’t access data.
Her organization also said he is also having a hard time managing $ 2.2 million federal subsidies. Subsidies pay for public health initiatives such as smoking and vaccination.
Echo-Hawk said, “It is very confusing to eradicate the support necessary to resolve the prevention of chronic diseases in Indian countries after saying that the prevention of chronic diseases is the first priority.”
HHS spokesman EMILY HILLIARD said Kennedy aims to improve the welfare among the native Americans through “cultural community -related solutions”.
Hilliard did not answer questions about certain plans for Kennedy’s Native Health, or concerns about the change of existing and proposed funds and employees.
As Kennedy hiked with Navajo Nation leader, KFF Health News asked how to improve and protect how to take care of the tribal community with a rollback in the department.
Kennedy replied: “Make sure all the wounds do not affect this community.”
Kennedy focuses on the health of the Native Native of America, which comes from personal and family experience, repeated in Navaho’s leadership. As a lawyer, he worked with a shortage of environmental health litigation. He also worked as an editor of ICT, a major American news outlet.
The minister also said he was influenced by his uncle, John F. Kennedy, and his father, Robert F. Kennedy.
Kennedy said, “The United States thought that the United States would not meet the moral authority and the role of the world unless we first looked back on the experience and role of the United States and did not relax or relax the massacre of the original natives of the American experience.
Some tribal leaders say that the recent reduction and the administration’s way of violating the treaty promised to provide the health and welfare of the tribes in return for the United States.
Malerba, the policy and legislative director of the United South and Eastern Tribes Sovereignty Protection Fund, said, “We have not consulted meaningfully about this behavior.
Alkire said at a parliamentary hearing that many America’s Aboriginal Health Organization sent a letter to the Ministry of Health, but no one received a response.
Lack of consultations are legally required when federal agencies seek changes that will have a significant impact on tribal countries.
Senator D-Hawaii said in a hearing, “This is not a moral question about what we owed to the indigenous people.” It is also a matter of law. “
Lack of shortcomers are worried about the additional changes. Financial financing is cut to Indian health services. and Reconstruction Federal Health.
Esther Lucero, president and CEO of the Seattle Indian Health Committee, said that the maneuver reminds me of the level of uncertainty even by the resources that have less than the feeling of working through Kobid -19 fashionability.
Lucero said, “The ability to serve for those who need desperately is in danger.
Among the most urgent concerns, there are parliamentary Republicans’ proposed cuts on MEDICAID, a major government health insurance program for people with low income or disabilities.
About 30% Native Americans under 65 and Native Alaska are registered in Medicaid, which helps to recall Indian health services and other tribal health facilities.
Native American adults It is exempt In the Medicaid Works requirements approved by the Republican Republican Party last month.
After Kennedy arranged the window with the Navaho state leaders, the tribe was conscious of the tribe, which blessed him in Diné Bizaad, the Navaho language. President Nygren emphasized how much it means that the minister of health in this country walks with them. He also reminded Kennedy a priority list they discussed. This included maintaining the federal low -income energy support program.
“We look forward to rebuilding and protecting some of the services provided by the department.
Since mid -May, the Trump administration has Proposal removal Energy program.
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