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Urban Native provider seeks state support for cultural center; DHHS pursuing state-plan amendment for "traditional healing"
Summary
Native Inc. requested $1.9 million — roughly $1 million for land/building and remainder for cultural programming — to establish a cultural center in Bismarck; DHHS told the committee it plans to submit a state-plan amendment to Medicaid for reimbursement of traditional-healing practices and to consult tribes on policy design.
Lorraine Davis, founder and CEO of Native Inc., asked the committee for $1,900,000 in one-time support to establish a cultural center in Bismarck. She said roughly $1 million would support land acquisition or building costs and the remainder would fund cultural programming and prevention services. "The cultural center would have a sweat lodge," she said when describing the proposed facility and programming.
Lorraine explained that federal grants previously supported cultural programming in the Bismarck area but those competitive grants ended and the…
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