When Washington’s legislative session kicks off next week, lawmakers will take up the issue of traditional Native American medicine.
Washington state Medicaid doesn’t currently reimburse Native American healers for their services — but Washington’s American Indian Health Commission is asking the Legislature to change that.
“Our medicine has been withheld in the past,” said Vicki Lowe, executive director of the Commission, and descendant of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe. “Our medicine was considered religion for years.”…