Indigenous Health

Center for Rural Health - Native Americans- located in the University of North Dakota's School of Medicine and Health Sciences and focused on serving rural populations. Website lists recent publications and presentations.

Rural Health Information Hub - database collecting resources on rural issues, includes a FAQ on health disparities among American Indians and Alaska Natives and the Indian Health Service, as well as links to other publications

Collaborative Research Center for American Indian Health (CRCAIH) - Helps tribal communities and health professionals plan and perform research addressing the health issues of American Indians in South Dakota, North Dakota, and Minnesota.

Great Plains Tribal Chairmen's Health Board - the area Indian Health Board for North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Nebraska, which serves as the communication link between the National Indian Health Board, Indian Health Service, and the Tribes.

 

Great Plains Tribal Epidemiology Center - The Tribal Epidemiology Centers (TEC) which serves North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska. TECs are Indian Health Service organizations that serve American Indian/Alaska Native Tribal and urban communities by managing public health information systems, investigating diseases of concern, managing disease prevention and control programs, responding to public health emergencies,  and coordinating these activities with other public health authorities.

 

Research at Cankdeska Cikana Community College - published results of research carried out at Cankdeska Cikana Community College of Spirit Lake. Includes tribe- specific survey results and comprehensive community assessments

 

Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Inc. - the Tribal Epidemiology Center (TEC) which serves Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. TECs are Indian Health Service organizations that serve American Indian/Alaska Native Tribal and urban communities by managing public health information systems, investigating diseases of concern, managing disease prevention and control programs, responding to public health emergencies,  and coordinating these activities with other public health authorities.

 

MMIP: A Storytelling Project - A project focused on surfacing the stories of families of Missing or Murdered Indigenous People, run by Agnes Woodward, "Nehiyaw from Treaty 4 Territory and a member of Kawacatoose First Nations", who currently resides in North Dakota: " This project has two goals: (1) Get immediate essential tangible care to those searching for loved ones and hopefully save lives. (2) Cut through media silence so that together we can demand a response to this unaddressed violent epidemic. MMIP affects individual nations and communities from coast to coast and their stories, in their own words, in their own voices with conviction and inherited resilience, must be told and known and shared."