1970: Military medics recruited to reservations

The Indian Health Service launches the Community Health Medic Program to employ Indians who are trained medics and corpsmen returning from military service, mostly in the Vietnam War. These workers are assigned to Indian Health Service clinics on reservations, where they serve primarily in remote rural American Indian and Alaska Native communities.

Theme

Federal-Tribal Relations

Region

Arctic, California, Great Basin, Great Plains, Northeast, Northwest Coast, Plateau, Southeast, Southwest, Subarctic