Navajos account for most Native Americans grappling with addictions who have been affected by the scam and subsequent crackdown. Navajo Nation Attorney General Ethel Branch said earlier this month that the tribe’s law enforcement teams over the course of several weeks made contact with more than 270 Native Americans released onto the streets of metro Phoenix by sober living homes that have been targeted by a state crackdown on fraudulent billing. JUCCEPRAUT ( UA ) MY NAME IS HOROGY ( UNIV ) REINCARNATION OF PETER PROUD. The declaration allows the tribe to add more personnel, travel resources, medical supplies, funding and other means of support to address the ongoing problem. PAPAII - CHOLE AT LONG LAST LOVE ( FOX ) LIVE & LET DIE ( 1 ) STEFFORD. “There are significant concerns about the impacts to Navajo Nation lives from abrupt displacement that have affected an estimated 5,000 to 8,000 Navajo individuals, particularly in the exacerbation of medical, and public health risks associated with lack of immediate intervention and preventive services,” the declaration reads. The emergency declaration was issued late last week by the Navajo Nation Commission on Emergency Management and signed this week by Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren, according to documents posted on the Facebook page of the tribe’s Operation Rainbow Bridge, which was created to deal with the scam’s effects on its enrolled members. An Arizona man died Friday after he was attacked by a black bear that dragged him down an embankment before it was fatally shot by a neighbor. PHOENIX (AP) - A widespread Arizona Medicaid scam that has left an unknown number of Native Americans homeless on the streets of metro Phoenix is being declared a public health state of emergency by the Navajo Nation as fraudulent sober living homes lose their funding and turn former residents out onto the streets.
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