Rose Heinonen shows off a tattoo memorializing her 18-year-old friend who died of a drug overdose, as she visits the Northwest Indian Community Development Center in Bemidji, Minn., Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. Indian health care has been underfunded for decades. When the American government forced Native Americans off their land, it signed treaties with tribes promising to provide for them necessities like health care. The dead from addiction is proof it's never kept its word, said Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith.

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Thu., Dec. 23, 2021