Don't Get Sick After June: American Indian Healthcare: (2010)

Declared wards of the state, Native Americans were promised housing, education and health care in numerous treaties with the US Government. Like so many other federal promises, these too have not been met. The budget shortfall to the Indian Health Service continues to be about 45 percent. Add to this the generational trauma of subjugation, reservations, boarding schools and alienation, their health and their health care is in a critical state.