1968: Government trains midwives for remote villages

Congress establishes the Alaska Community Health Aide Program to train health workers for remote villages and to serve in larger towns, at a ratio of 1 worker per 300 people. While the program is directed to the entire population of Alaska, most participants are Native women, who traditionally care for women during childbirth, or who come from families where women provide the health care.

Theme

Federal-Tribal Relations, Medicine Ways

Region

Arctic, Northwest Coast, Subarctic