The McLaren Northern Michigan Family Medicine Residency Rural Training Program (RTP), established in 2021, is expanding to offer a Tribal Health Track, as approved by ACGME April 1, 2025. The
Today, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced the formation of the Missing or Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) Task Force to address the high rates of violence against Indigenous people in the state of Michigan. This interagency collaboration brings together tribal, federal, and state and local prosecutors, law enforcement officers, victim advocates, and human services specialists to identify, develop, and implement solutions to the MMIP crisis.
To ensure that American Indians in Michigan were given the support and services they needed to prevent cancer and find it early, the Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan started the Three Fires Cancer Consortium in 2017 with funding from CDC’s National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program.
The Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan will be a new grantee of AmeriCorps’s MI Healthy Climate Corps on
Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grant. CPRG is a grant through the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency to help develop climate action plans with six Tribes in Michigan.