Native American Training Institute
(www.nativeinstitute.org)
The mission of the Native American Training Institute is to empower individuals, families and the community to create a safe and healthy environment so children and families can achieve their highest potential.
One Sky Center The American Indian/Alaska Native National Resource Center for Substance Abuse
(www.oneskycenter.org)
One Sky Center is the first national resource center dedicated to improving prevention and treatment of substance abuse among Native people.
Conceptualized and funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), it is designed to work across all federal and state agencies that provide services to American Indian/Alaska Native populations.
Aberden
Area Tribal Chairmen's Health Board
(http://www.aatchb.org/index.html)
The Aberdeen Area Tribal
Chairmen's Health Board is established in order to provide the Indian people
of the Aberdeen Area with a formal representative Board as a means of communicating
and participation with the Aberdeen Area Indian Health Service and other health
agencies and organizations on health matters.
American
Indian Health (http://americanindianhealth.nlm.nih.gov/)
The
National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine
has launched a Web site addressing the special health concerns
of the 4 million Americans who claim American Indian or Alaska
Native ancestry. For example, NIH notes, Native Americans are
2.6 times more likely to have diabetes as non-Hispanic whites
of a similar age. They also have a greater mortality risk for
tuberculosis, suicide, pneumonia, alcoholism and influenza
than the average population. The American Indian Health site
brings together pertinent health and medical resources, including
consumer health information, research results, traditional
healing resources, and links to other Web sites. Much of it
has been assembled from other National Library of Medicine
resources such as PubMed and MedlinePlus.
H-AMINDIAN (http://www.asu.edu/clas/history/h-amindian/index.html)
A joint project between Arizona State University and H-NET, H-AmIndian includes an edited discussion list for scholars, academicians, and Native peoples to consider the history, culture, ideas and events relating to indigenous peoples from the North Pole to Mexico.
Victor Rocha's Indian Gaming News (http://www.pechanga.net/)
MSN groups (http://groups.msn.com/BayAreaIndianCalendar)
MSN groups hosts a Bay Area NDN calendar with a website and
listserve
The California Indian Museum in Santa Rosa (www.cimcc.org)
The
California Indian Museum in Santa Rosa has been hosting some
really great workshop/discussions, they send out their upcoming
events via email.
Native
American Health Center Newsletter (NAHCnews@nativehealth.org)
Andre
Cramblit Newsletter (IndigenousNewsNetwork@topica.com)
Andre Cramblit has an excellent email digest that he send out about
once a day. It seems to focus primarily on West Coast regional issues
from Alaska down through California, in addition to news with a
nationwide scope, but that might be only a result of who forwards
what to him for inclusion........
Indian Health Service (http://www.ihs.gov/)
The
Indian Health Service is the principal federal health care
provider
and health advocate for Indian people, and its goal is to assure
that comprehensive, culturally acceptable personal and public
health services are available and accessible to American Indian
and Alaska Native people.
Minnesota
Indian Women's Resource Center (http://miwrc.org/default.html)
This
site is to
assist American Indian Women so they can enjoy a better quality
of life for themselves and their families.
The National Center for
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research (NCAIANMHR)
(http://www.uchsc.edu/ai/ncaianmhr/resource.htm)
The
National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health
Research (NCAIANMHR), a program in the Department of Psychiatry,
is one of four minority mental health research Centers. The NCAIANMHR
is sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health and is
the only program of this type in the country focusing specifically
on American Indian and Alaska Native populations.
North Dakota Indian Affairs Commission
(http://www.health.state.nd.us/ndiac)
The
Commission is the liaison between the Executive Branch and the
Tribes in North Dakota. Duties include mediation service with
the Tribes and State and working with other state agencies regarding
proper protocol in working with Indian people and Tribal governments.
White Bison (http://www.whitebison.org/)
White
Bison was established as an American Indian non-profit corporation
in 1988. White Bison has a vision of facilitating the entry of
100 communities into healing by the year 2010 and is a proud participant
in the Native American Wellbriety Movement.
