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- Expansion of four Indian casinos in region on Feb. 5 ballot: local…
- GRIEG: The wisdom of an elder
- Local school group earns state grant
- NEW FR YUNG ADULTS
- Insurance Status Linked To Cancer utcomes
- The costs of breast cervical cancer detection among low-income women
Indian Country Friendly to bama
New California Media – Dec 24, 2007
The candidate opposes the dumping of nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain a sacred site and co-sponsored the Indian Health Care Improvement Act of 2007. Hillary Clinton’s Web site includes veterans children and women among her top issues. John Edwards’ site lists blacks Asian-Americans Pacific Islanders Latinos the elderly and young people among his concerns.
Expansion of four Indian casinos in region on Feb. 5 ballot: local…
Free with registration – San Diego Business Journal – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 24, 2007
5 ballot: local expert predicting 3 to 5 percent growth. (Economic Trends 2008) The 10 American Indian casinos located in San Diego County do roughly $2 billion of business a year. But phenomenal growth as enjoyed in the past will not be in the cards for 2008. “I think it’s going to be more of the same but muted” said Randolph Baker who chairs the Sycuan Institute on Tribal Gaming at San Diego State University. Baker says he would expect 3 percent to 5 percent growth in the industry during 2008. That is if the economy does not worsen significantly.
GRIEG: The wisdom of an elder
Rocky Mountain News – Dec 24, 2007
Ida who’s Winnebago is married to Logan who’s Ponca and who is forever ready with his own joke or two though this evening finds him absorbed in a book about the war in Afghanistan which he’s more attuned to since his grandson is serving there. “How many Navajos are here?” asks Rick Williams the president of the American Indian College Fund which helps put the evening together. “How many Apache? ne Apache. Kiowas? h there’s a Kiowa. Lakota Dakota Nakota?”Wo-o-o the Sioux cheer.
Local school group earns state grant
Record-Searchlight – Record-Searchlight (subscription) – Dec 24, 2007
The American Indian Education Center program created by the state Legislature in 1974 provided $4. 9 million in grants this year. The grants are used to provide educational resources for American Indian students their families and public schools. The program focuses on providing the students with direct services to help improve their reading language arts and mathematics skills and ultimately help them enter college and find careers. Local Indians for Education is one of 29 statewide groups to receive the grant this year… The American Indian Education Center program created by the state Legislature in 1974 provided $4. 9 million in grants this year. The grants are used to provide educational resources for American Indian students their families and public schools. The program focuses on providing the students with direct services to help improve their reading language arts and mathematics skills and ultimately help them enter college and find careers. Local Indians for Education is one of 29 statewide groups to receive the grant this year. Mandarin Chinese classes still available to publicSpots still are available for the Shasta Union High School District’s community conversational Mandarin Chinese classes next month. The classes run from 6 to 9 p.
NEW FR YUNG ADULTS
Houston Chronicle – Dec 24, 2007
” His own experience as a German Jew sensitized him to the plight of those who live on the border between two cultures never fully and comfortably situated in either. Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian this year’s winner of the National Book Award for young-adult fiction is a perfect embodiment of that marginality. Arnold Spirit aka Junior is beginning high school on the Spokane American Indian reservation in Washington. His family has been there since it was established in the 1880s. The reservation is suffused with a sense of failure and defeat. Alcoholism is rampant and the source of countless tragedies that befall Junior’s family friends and neighbors. Arnold flings his geometry book at his teacher on the first day of school after discovering it is the very same book issued to his mother when she was a student at the school.
Insurance Status Linked To Cancer utcomes
Science Daily – Science Daily (press release) – Dec 24, 2007
Among individuals under age 65 years those aged 18 to 24 years have the highest probability of being uninsured. The probability of being uninsured varies inversely by income. More than half (53. 6 percent) of uninsured individuals aged 18 to 64 years have no usual source of health care. The uninsured are more likely to report that cost issues caused them to delay care not receive care and not obtain prescription drugs. Among those who saw a health care practitioner the uninsured were less likely to be advised to quit smoking or to lose weight.
The costs of breast cervical cancer detection among low-income women
eMaxHealth.com – Dec 24, 2007
Many deaths from breast and cervical cancer would be avoidable through the use of mammography and Pap tests respectively. In 1990 Congress established the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP)–which is now the largest cancer screening program in the United States–to provide support and assistance to increase breast and cervical cancer screening among medically under-served low-income women. Program services are available in all 50 states the District of Columbia (DC) 4 U. To help determine the level of funding required to reach and screen eligible women Ekwueme and colleagues set out to estimate the costs per woman served per woman screened and per cancer detected through this program. Read about: Cancer Treatment.
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