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A New Dawn: Traditional Health Care Practices and Medicaid

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

We are Star People: Resiliency Through Stories

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