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Article: Urban American Indians Slow to Get Health-Care Aid.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- November 2, 2002
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By Mitch Mitchell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 2--Nearly two-thirds of American Indians live in urban areas, but 99 percent of all government aid for health care goes to rural communities, said officials from the Urban Inter-Tribal Center of Texas.
"We don't want to take any money away" from the rural American Indians, said W. Keith Overstreet, family services director for the Urban Inter-Tribal Center of Texas. "What we need is a bigger pie."
More than 118,000 American Indians live in Texas, and during the last decade, Texas gained more than 25,000 American Indian residents, more than 46 ...