{"id":17939,"date":"2025-04-07T12:40:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T12:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/kennedys-plan-to-send-health-officials-to-indian-country-angers-native-leaders\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T12:40:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T12:40:36","slug":"kennedys-plan-to-send-health-officials-to-indian-country-angers-native-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/kennedys-plan-to-send-health-officials-to-indian-country-angers-native-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy\u2019s Plan to Send Health Officials to \u2018Indian Country\u2019 Angers Native Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1281385496253050\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">show on Facebook<\/a> of his meeting with American Indian and Alaska Native leaders last month, declaring himself \u201cvery inspired\u201d and committed to improving the Indian Health Service, which he says has \u201calways been treated as the redheaded stepchild\u201d by his agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now Native leaders have some questions for him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Why, they would like to know, did he lay off employees in programs aimed at supporting Native people, like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s Healthy Tribes initiative? Why has he shuttered five regional offices of the Department of Health and Human Services that, by the estimate of one advocate for tribes, cover 80 percent of the nation\u2019s Indian population?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Why were five senior advisers for tribal issues within the department\u2019s Administration for Children and Families, all of them Indian or Native people, let go? Why are all of these changes being made without consulting tribal leaders, despite centuries-old treaty obligations, as well as <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2000\/11\/09\/00-29003\/consultation-and-coordination-with-indian-tribal-governments\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">presidential<\/a> <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2022\/12\/05\/2022-26555\/uniform-standards-for-tribal-consultation\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">executive orders<\/a>, requiring it?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the final indignity, Native leaders say, came last week, when Mr. Kennedy reassigned high-ranking health officials \u2014 including a bioethicist married to Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, a tobacco regulator, a human resources manager and others \u2014 to Indian Health Service locations in the American West, when what the chronically understaffed service really needs are doctors and nurses who are familiar with the unique needs of Native people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey are breaching their trust obligation to Indian tribes by all of the scams that they\u2019re doing,\u201d said Deb Haaland, the former interior secretary and congresswoman, who is a member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe and a Democratic candidate for governor of New Mexico. \u201cIt\u2019s terrible, it\u2019s shameful and it isn\u2019t right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This week, Mr. Kennedy will visit Native health providers and meet with tribal leaders in Arizona and New Mexico to spotlight his commitment to Indian health. The secretary, who has also <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.help.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/25-04-10_kennedy_witness_invitation_-_hhs_restructuringpdf.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">been invited<\/a> to appear before the Senate health committee on Thursday to testify about the job cuts and the vast reorganization of his department, has spoken often of his and his family\u2019s longstanding commitment to Native Americans. The Coalition of Large Tribes, an advocacy group, gave his nomination <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/largetribes.org\/2025\/01\/letter-rfkj-nomination-secretary-health-and-human-services\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">its highest endorsement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI spent 20 percent of my career working on Native issues,\u201d <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hJREDG89gjI\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Kennedy told Senator Lisa Murkowski,<\/a> Republican of Alaska, during his confirmation hearings in January, adding that his father and his uncle, former Senator Edward M. Kennedy, \u201cwere deeply, deeply critical of the functioning of the Indian Health Service back in 1968 and 1980, and nothing\u2019s changed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He vowed that if confirmed, he would bring in a Native person as an assistant secretary \u201cto make sure that all of the decisions that we make in our agency are conscious of their impacts on First Nations.\u201d The department has a Secretary\u2019s Tribal Advisory Committee, which met with Mr. Kennedy last month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ihs.gov\/aboutihs\/overview\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Indian Health Service,<\/a> a network of hospitals, clinics and health centers, some operated by tribes themselves, flows from a series of treaties and court rulings that obligate the federal government to provide health care to American Indian and Native people \u2014 an obligation that can be traced back to 1787, when the Constitution recognized \u201cIndian tribes\u201d as sovereign nations. The people it serves have profound health challenges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Native Americans have long had shorter life expectancy and higher rates of disease than other ethnic groups. According to an <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/ncuih.org\/2024\/06\/07\/life-expectancy-rates-for-american-indian-and-alaska-native-people-dropped-drastically-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">analysis published last year<\/a> by the National Council of Urban Indian Health, white people born in 2021 are expected to live an average of 11 years longer than their American Indian and Alaska Native peers. Native Americans die disproportionately from chronic liver disease, diabetes, homicide, and suicide, according to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ihs.gov\/newsroom\/factsheets\/disparities\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the Indian Health Service.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A spokesman for Mr. Kennedy noted that the service itself had not been affected by the recent layoffs, and said there were no plans to consolidate any of its offices. (One tribal leader, Aaron Payment of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, said that was not true; Indian Health Service workers in his area were told to cancel their lease on a local office, he said, and didn\u2019t know where they would go.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The spokesman said the proposed transfers were voluntary, although legal experts said those who refused would be subject to termination without severance pay. The spokesman would not say how many employees were affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But in interviews, more than half a dozen leaders of Native American groups used words like \u201ccruel,\u201d \u201cdisingenuous\u201d and \u201coffensive\u201d to describe the proposed transfers. Cruel because the administration gave workers one day to decide whether to uproot their families in order to keep their jobs; disingenuous because the moves seemed aimed at getting rid of high-performing employees who might otherwise be difficult to lay off; and offensive because they play into the racist trope that the regions served by the program constitute a backwater.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some chose their words carefully, fearing that if they angered Mr. Kennedy or President Trump, it would make things worse for the people they represent. A.C. Locklear, who runs the National Indian Health Board, a nonprofit representing the nation\u2019s 574 tribes, was asked whether he viewed the recent job transfers as a serious effort to improve the health of Native Americans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Locklear, an attorney and citizen of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, was silent for a long while. \u201cI\u2019m not exactly sure how to answer that,\u201d he finally said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Legal experts say the transfers are permissible under the law. Those affected hold positions within the senior executive service, a corps of high-ranking government employees created by Congress in 1979 to give agency heads more flexibility in transferring people with executive skills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Two employees who got transfer notices said they had been placed on administrative leave and cut off from their work email accounts. One said she would consider a reassignment, despite the hardship for her family. Another said she had turned the offer down. Both spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. Dr. Fauci\u2019s wife, Christine Grady, declined to be interviewed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">David Simmons, the government affairs and advocacy director for the National Indian Child Welfare Association, a nonprofit in Portland, Ore., said it looked to him as though the administration was waging pressure campaigns to push senior leaders who are not familiar with Indian tribes into jobs for which they are not suited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThat\u2019s a huge waste of time, and it\u2019s an ineffective and inefficient way to get business done,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He also said his group had worked for years with the health department to put together a team of five advisers for Native issues within the Administration for Children and Families, a sub-agency of the health department. He learned that all five had been laid off as part of last week\u2019s \u201creduction in force\u201d that eliminated 10,000 employees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s an incredible loss,\u201d Mr. Simmons said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Tribal leaders have long labored to be treated as equals by American politicians. But, they say, never have they struggled as much as under Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even before Mr. Kennedy was confirmed by the Senate, Mr. Trump\u2019s assault on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives infuriated Native Americans, who felt forced to explain that programs that serve them should not be eliminated. \u201cWe\u2019re not racial minorities; we are political minorities,\u201d Mr. Simmons said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nihb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2025-01-31_-HHS_IHS-Exemption-from-Hiring-Freeze.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">hiring freeze<\/a> and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/25\/business\/economy\/probationary-federal-workers-trump-cuts.html\" title=\"\">mass firing of probationary employees<\/a> prompted <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nihb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/25.01.31-NIHB_NCUIH-Letter-to-Congress_Tribal-Impacts-of-OMB-M-25-13.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a string<\/a> of letters from the National Indian Health Board, demanding that the Indian Health Service be exempt from the cuts. According to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/12\/12\/health\/indigenous-data-abigail-echo-hawk.html\" title=\"\">Abigail Echo-Hawk,<\/a> an epidemiologist and citizen of the Pawnee Nation who is a leader of the Seattle Indian Health Board, tribal leaders \u201cwere able to educate Secretary Kennedy,\u201d and 950 employees were reinstated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But while Native leaders expected such moves from Mr. Trump, many say they feel betrayed by Mr. Kennedy. As an independent presidential candidate, he visited with the Coalition of Large Tribes and spoke of his family trips to the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation, the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and Hopi and Navajo reservations while he was a child, according to Last Real Indians, a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/lastrealindians.com\/news\/2024\/3\/13\/presidential-candidate-robert-kennedy-jr-pays-visit-to-coalition-of-large-tribes-pledging-to-strengthen-tribal-relations-and-honor-treaties\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">news organization that covered the event<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis was very much a part of my youth,\u201d he was quoted as saying, adding that his father, who was killed in 1968 while running for president, \u201cbelieved the treatment of Indigenous people in this country \u2014 the Native Americans, the ones who above all others can call themselves American \u2014 that that was the original sin of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Payment, who served on the Secretary\u2019s Tribal Advisory Committee under three presidents, including during the first Trump administration, said in an interview that he believes Mr. Kennedy is genuine. He blamed Elon Musk, who is leading an effort to overhaul the government,. He <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7313596663372161024\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">wrote on LinkedIn<\/a> that while Mr. Kennedy \u201ccleans up good for his new role and had a collegial interaction\u201d with the committee, \u201cmajor cuts are happening right under our noses with his consent.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Echo-Hawk, who <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/06\/11\/native-american-coronavirus-data-314527\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">made headlines in 2020<\/a> when she criticized the C.D.C. for not sharing data about Covid-19\u2019s spread among Native communities, said she was especially concerned about the C.D.C.\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/healthy-tribes\/about\/index.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Healthy Tribes<\/a> Program, which seeks to \u201crespect and promote Indigenous knowledge, traditions, and cultural practices for health and healing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The program provides grant funding that supports Ms. Echo-Hawk\u2019s work. She said she learned through agency contacts that the head of Healthy Tribes and many of its employees were let go, and that the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/tribal-health\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">C.D.C. Office of Tribal Affairs<\/a> would most likely be broken up, its components transferred to other divisions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As \u201ca friend of Indian Country,\u201d she said, Mr. Kennedy \u201chas eloquently stated that one of his first focuses is going to be on chronic disease prevention for American Indians and Alaska Natives \u2014 which is why this move is so puzzling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Haaland, who said she used the Indian Health Service for her health care as a younger woman, used another word to describe the reorganization, layoffs and transfers: disrespectful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s disrespectful of the I.H.S., it\u2019s disrespectful of the people who have dedicated their careers to H.H.S. and to our country, fighting disease and regulating the things that need to be regulated,\u201d Ms. Haaland said. \u201cI just don\u2019t understand what they think they\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/07\/us\/politics\/rfk-indian-health-service.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health Secretary Robert F. 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