Indian Health Service Funding: Overview.

UNITED States. Indian Health Service; GOVERNMENT programs; MEDICAL care; HEALTH of Native Americans; HEALTH of the indigenous peoples of the Americas; ALASKA Natives

The article presents an overview of the U.S. Indian Health Service (IHS), a federal program under the executive branch of the U.S. government that is designed to provide health care for American Indians and Alaska Natives. Topics covered include history of the IHS, the modern federal approach to U.S.-indigenous relations framed by the Marshall Trilogy, a series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions, and the problem of financing faced by IHS.