Biden is scheduled to travel to the Gila River Indian Community on Oct. 25, his first visit to tribal lands as president, where he will deliver his remarks.
Tribal leaders still didn’t know exactly how many of their citizens had been disenrolled a year into the process of redetermining Medicaid eligibility.
Centuries-long violence against Native Californians persists today, most glaringly with an epidemic of suicide and missing and murdered community members.