{"id":19392,"date":"2021-12-20T20:18:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T01:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=19392"},"modified":"2021-12-20T20:18:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T01:18:29","slug":"rosebud-sioux-tribe-thanks-biden-administration-for-honoring-victory-in-treaty-rights-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/12\/20\/rosebud-sioux-tribe-thanks-biden-administration-for-honoring-victory-in-treaty-rights-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosebud Sioux Tribe thanks Biden administration for honoring victory in treaty rights case"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Great<\/a>
Leaders and representatives of the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Association pose with Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland at a nation-to-nation meeting with the United States in Rapid City, South Dakota, on December 17, 2021. President Scott Herman, second fourth from left, is seen next to Secretary Haaland. Photo courtesy Rosebud Sioux Tribe<\/figcaption>\r\n
President Biden Honors Indian Health Care As Treaty Right<\/div>\r\n
Monday, December 20, 2021<\/div>\r\n
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<\/p>\r\nThe following is the text of a December 20, 2021, press release from the Rosebud Sioux Tribe<\/a>, issued after the Biden administration declined to dispute a treaty rights victory<\/a> won by the tribe.<\/em>\r\n

<\/p>\r\nToday, the Biden Administration decided to honor the decision of the 8th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals from August 25, 2021 that our 1868 Great Sioux Nation Treaty requires the United States to provide \u201ccompetent physician led-health care.\u201d \r\n

<\/p>\r\n\u201cThe Rosebud Sioux Tribe case means that our 1868 Treaty mandates Indian Health Care, and under the Federal trust responsibility our Native Peoples are entitled to competent treaty and trust based health care. Our Indian patients can no longer be ignored, the United States must provide competent physician led-health care,\u201d said President Scott Herman, Rosebud Sioux Tribe.\r\n

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The Biden administration won\u2019t be appealing a treaty rights victory secured by the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, attorneys involved in the closely-watched case said.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t

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<\/p>\r\n\u201cOur Rosebud Sioux People have suffered with poor, negligent health care. One of our mothers gave birth on a bathroom floor, when medical staff did not attend to her labor. Other tribal members sat in a waiting room while they suffered heart attacks, and then the Indian Health Service closed our Emergency Room, forcing our people to drive 50 or more than 100 miles to get health care.\u201d\r\n

<\/p>\r\n\u201cWe thank President Biden for standing behind his policy to honor our Nation-to-Nation Relations, respect Tribal Sovereignty, our Treaties, and the Federal Trust Responsibility, and for sharing that direction with his Cabinet Secretaries.\u201d\r\n

<\/p>\r\n\u201cWe also want to especially thank Secretary Xavier Becerra, who has a long track record working with our Native Sovereign Nations when in Congress, when serving as the California Attorney General, and now that he is Secretary of Health and Human Services. We know that he is very personally dedicated to American health care and Native American health care, especially in this time of the National Public Health Emergency. Secretary Becerra has a strong contingent of Native health care advocates, at IHS and throughout the Department, and we thank them all.\u201d\r\n

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