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in Iowa and one in South Dakota.
• The tribe's IHS-contracted clinic in Omaha, Neb., has a medical doctor and two nurse practitioners, but the X-rays, specialists and prescriptions that are outsourced are not covered, said Jan Henderson, the tribe's navigator project director. "And if they don't have insurance, they have to pay for it themselves," she said.
• Tribes across the country get some federal money for referrals, but the small pools run out quickly, Henderson said.
• She views the new health care law as a great step for Native Americans, but the greatest challenge is educating tribal members who are weary from decades of promises of improved health care.
• "Education is very important in this right now to get people to be open to actually hearing about it," Henderson said. "We hear a lot of people who say they don't need this, they don't want this."
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A national advocate for victims' rights and missing children will speak at a South Dakota law enforcement dinner next month.
• John Walsh, creator of the television show "America's Most Wanted" and a leader of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, will be the keynote speaker at the 32nd annual Law Enforcement Appreciation Dinner and Children's Charity Fundraiser on Nov. 13 in Sioux Falls.
• The annual event raises money for poor children and brings law enforcement officers from various agencies together to discuss issues.
• Walsh's career as an advocate for victim's rights started after his 6-year-old son was abducted in 1981 and later found slain.
• Officials say Walsh's work on "America's Most Wanted" helped find a man who had fled South Dakota after being charged with first-degree manslaughter.
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