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Broken Promises: Continuing Federal Funding Shortfall for Native Americans
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights report, December 2018.
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Federal funding and trust accounts for Native Americans, 2009 to 2018
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The report's text calls $9,990 federal spending nationwide; its Figure 2.2 labels it national health spending per capita and lists Veterans Health at $9,404 and Medicaid at $7,492.
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Federal funding and trust accounts for Native Americans, 2009 to 2018
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The Dawes Act line is a HUD statement the commission quotes. Stacy Bohlen told the commission in 2016 that "400 million plus acres of land" were exchanged for peace and treaty services.
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Broken Promises: Continuing Federal Funding Shortfall for Native Americans, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 20 Dec 2018.
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In 2016, IHS health care expenditures per person were only $2,834, compared to $9,990 per person for federal health care spending nationwide.
Figure 2.2: 2016 IHS Expenditures Per Capita and Other Federal Health Care Expenditures Per Capita
Under the Dawes Act of 1887, 90 million acres of tribal land was lost through sales to non-Indians
The federal government has failed to honor its trust responsibility to promote Native American self-determination via its support of economic development in Indian country.
The United States expects all nations to live up to their treaty obligations; it should live up to its own.
Funding for the IHS and Native American health care is inequitable and unequal.
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