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Indian Health Service (IHS) and treaty rights

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Justin Lane:

Well, IHS is formed, was formed by the US government, and is an acronym for Indian Health Service. And basically, it was formed because treaty, there's a treaty right of health care for Native people. So this is something that you can kind of think of it as Native people have

already paid for this health care, through their land. So it's something that the United States Government still owes for, for that land. And it's very underfunded. I believe that per capita, the prison system in the US spends more on prisoners' healthcare than the government does on Native health care.

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