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California Native Americans won health care settlement. Federal government hasn t delivered Yesenia Amaro View Comments Fresno, Calif. The court rulings brought hope. Finally, California s Native American population the nation s largest would receive its rightful share of federal health care funding. Triumphant, leaders in the California Native community journeyed to Washington to negotiate the process of opening the funding pipeline. That was more than four decades ago. Today, despite a 1979 federal court-ordered settlement that would have pumped millions of dollars into California for Native American health care, the state s share remains stunningly underfunded by the Indian Health Service, Native leaders say. Their claim has been corroborated by government records and, most recently, a 2019 letter to IHS co-signed by then-Sen. Kamala Harris and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, urging the agency to repair this longstanding inequity. ....
FRESNO, Calif. â The court rulings brought hope. Finally, California s Native American population â the nation s largest â would receive its rightful share of federal health care funding. Triumphant, leaders in the California Native community journeyed to Washington to negotiate the process of opening the funding pipeline. That was more than four decades ago. Today, despite a 1979 federal court-ordered settlement that would have pumped millions of dollars into California for Native American health care, the state s share remains stunningly underfunded by the Indian Health Service, Native leaders say. Their claim has been corroborated by government records and, most recently, a 2019 letter to IHS co-signed by then-Sen. Kamala Harris and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, urging the agency to repair this longstanding inequity. ....
May 2 The court rulings brought hope. Finally, California's Native American population the nation's largest would receive its rightful share of federal health care funding. Triumphant, leaders in the California Native community journeyed to Washington to negotiate the process of opening the funding pipeline. That was more than four decades ago. Today, despite a 1979 federal court-ordered . ....
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) Without federally protected land to call home, Mono Lake Paiute tribal members are scattered across the state. But their spiritual hubs remain nearby the almost million-year-old alkaline Mono Lake in the shadows of the jagged eastern escarpment of the Sierra Nevada. The tribe takes its name from its traditional word for what was once a high-protein food source, the pupae of tiny black alkaline flies that carpet the Mono Lake shoreline. They have a crunchy, nutty flavor, which makes them very snackable when dried. The tribe’s ancestors adapted to life in the high-altitude valley with short growing seasons by irrigating villages, harvesting pine nuts and hunting pronghorn antelope and jackrabbits for food and pelts for clothing. ....