Urban Indians let down by IHS advance appropriations response

'The federal government continues to prove that the safety of Native lives is not a concern.'

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and IHS Director Roselyn Tso. (courtesy HHS)

WASHINGTON — Native health advocates are disappointed by a response from the Indian Health Service (IHS) to their request for the agency to allow urban Indian organizations (UIOs) to receive timely federal funding to address Indigenous healt…