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For Indian Country, federal cuts decimate core tribal programs

Indian Country Fed Cuts

A saying reading "For the love of Native People" has been written in ink by a colleague on Dr. Sarah Hills arm, a dentist with Seattle Indian Health Board (SIHB) and a member of the Spirit Lake Dakota tribe, after she received a shot of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, at the SIHB, on Dec. 21, 2020, in Seattle, Washington. 

President Donald Trump’s sweeping cuts to the federal workforce and government spending have reverberated across Indian Country, leaving tribes with deep uncertainty about their health clinics, schools, police agencies and wildfire crews.

Native officials say the cuts could hit a vast array of core public services in tribal communities � even though the federal government is legally required to provide those services.





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