It’s no secret that the Indian Health Service, the federal agency tasked with providing health-care services to American Indians and Alaska Natives, is underfunded and overburdened; Native Americans are more likely to die from liver disease, diabetes, homicide, suicide, and respiratory diseases than the general population in the United States. But a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds yet another variance in the death certificates of Native Americans: Their race is often misclassified.
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