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Jessica Ann Rickert (born 1950) became the first female American Indian dentist in America upon graduating with a DDS from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry in 1975. [1] [2] [3] She was one of only six women in a class of 140 students. [4] She is a member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, and a direct descendant of the Indian ...
The Native American Health Center ( NAHC) is a non-profit organization serving California's San Francisco Bay Area Native Population and other under-served populations in the Bay Area since 1972. [1] The Native American Health Center, Inc. was founded in 1972 as the Urban Indian Health Board, Inc. [2] NAHC operates two sites in San Francisco ...
Quechan, Paipai, and Kiliwa. The Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation is a federally recognized tribe of Mission Indians from Southern California, located in an unincorporated area of San Diego County just east of El Cajon. The Sycuan band are a Kumeyaay tribe, one of the four ethnic groups indigenous to San Diego County.
The Indian Health Service ( IHS) is an operating division (OPDIV) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). IHS is responsible for providing direct medical and public health services to members of federally recognized Native American Tribes and Alaska Native people. IHS is the principal federal health care provider and ...
The Acjachemen (/ ɑː ˈ x ɑː tʃ ə m ə m /) are an Indigenous people of California.Published maps often identify their ancestral lands as extending from the beach to the mountains, south from what is now known as Aliso Creek in Orange County to the Las Pulgas Canyon in the northwestern part of San Diego County. [2]
Cecilia Fire Thunder (born Cecilia Apple; October 24, 1946) is a nurse, community health planner and tribal leader of the Oglala Sioux. On November 2, 2004, she was the first woman elected as president of the Tribe. She served until being impeached on June 29, 2006, several months short of the two-year term.
Reservation. The Ewiiaapaayp Indian Reservation, formerly known as the Cuyapaipe Reservation ( 32°50′30″N 116°23′08″W ), is a federal Indian reservation located in the Laguna Mountains of southern East County, San Diego. [6] The reservation was created in 1891 by the US Congress. Two parcels of land form the reservation.
July 26, 2024 at 12:08 PM. MILWAUKEE - On August 1 from 2-6 p.m., Gerald Ignace Indian Health Center is hosting a Community Health Fair. Lisa Albright, Community Health Outreach Coordinator with ...