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A New Dawn: Traditional Health Care Practices and Medicaid

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By Josh Severns, LCSW, ACADC (Little Shell Chippewa) Project Director, Traditional Health Care Practices Project (California), Kauffman and Associates, Inc. Contributors: Art Martinez, PhD (Chumash) | Holly Echo-Hawk, MSc (Pawnee) On October 16, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approved an amendment to California’s Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) Section 1115 waiver, authorizing … Read Now

Josh Severns, LCSW, ACADC

We are Star People: Resiliency Through Stories

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By Dolores Subia BigFoot, PhD  Each of the 574 federally recognized tribes have their own unique stories, histories, teachings, and understandings. Unfortunately, there is a shared history of colonization and displacement resulting in many—or total—disruptions of our stories, teachings, and understandings of who we are, where we come from, and where we are going. Now, … Read Now

Dolores Subia BigFoot, PhD

Medicaid, IHS, and Tribal Provider Alliance

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By former State of Montana Medicaid Director, Mary E. Dalton, Dalton Consulting LLC  Disclaimer from author: I am not an attorney and I do not give legal advice. Throughout this paper, I will refer to different federal statutes or legislation, but I am referring to them from the perspective of a lay person reading the … Read Now

Mary Dalton

Celebrating National Native American Heritage Month

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November is National Native American Heritage Month, a great opportunity to acknowledge American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States. In October 2022, in his National Native American Heritage Month proclamation, President Biden upheld America’s obligation to recognize Indigenous people across the world: “We celebrate Indigenous peoples past and present and rededicate ourselves to … Read Now

Anna Whiting Sorrell

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