WITNESS LIST

PANEL 1

DR. DAVID SATCHER, Surgeon General of the United States, and Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

PANEL II

THE HONORABLE EARL OLD PERSON, Chairman, Blackfeet Tribal Business Council, Browning, Montana

MS. JULIA DAVIS, Chairperson, Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, Portland, Oregon

PANEL III

MR. THURMAN JOHNSON, Shiprock, New Mexico - Didn't submit written testimony

MS. GLORIA HARRISON, Shiprock, New Mexico

MS. JESSIE R. TAKEN ALIVE, McLaughlin, South Dakota

MR. GEORGE PICKUP, Kansas, Oklahoma

Accompanied by: GEORGE CARR, Kansas, Oklahoma

MS. JANE DUMAS, San Diego, California - Didn't submit written testimony

PANEL IV

THE HONORABLE BILL ANOATUBBY, Governor, The Chickasaw Nation, Ada, Oklahoma

THE HONORABLE RUSSELL "BUD" MASON, Chairman, Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, New Town, North Dakota

THE HONORABLE MARY V. THOMAS, Governor, Gila River Indian Community Council, Sacaton, Arizona

THE HONORABLE DANIEL EDDY, JR., Chairman, Colorado River Tribal Council, Parker, Arizona

THE HONORABLE SANDRA NINHAM, On behalf of Deborah Doxtator, Council Member, Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin, Oneida, Wisconsin

THE HONORABLE JOSEPH C. SAULQUE, Advisory Council on California Indian Policy, Benton, California

MS. MARGARET TERRANCE, Hogansburg, New York

MS. GENEVIEVE JACKSON, Chairperson for Health & Social Services Committee, Navajo Nation Council, Window Rock, Arizona

PANEL V

MS. NORINE SMITH, Executive Director, Indian Health Board of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota - Did not appear before the committee.

MR. RALPH FORQUERA, Executive Director, Seattle Indian Health Board, Seattle, Washington

PANEL VI

DR. JOANN BODURTHA, M.D., MPH, FAAP, Associate Professor of Human Genetics, Pediactrics, and Obstetricians & Gynecologists, Virginia Commonwealth University, American Academy of Pediatrics, Richmond, Virginia

DR. CRAIG WINKEL, M.D., Former Chairman of American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists Committee on American Indian Affairs, Washington, D.C.

DR. MURRAY D. SYKES, Chairman of the American Dental Association Council on Government Affairs, Washington, D.C.

DR. ARTHUR McDONALD, Chief Executive Officer, Morningstar Memorial Foundation, Lame Deer, Montana, on behalf of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.

DR. MICHAEL BIRD, M.D., Chairman of the Board of Directors, American Public Health Association, Washington, D.C.

MR. MICHAEL SINCLAIR, Senior Vice President, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Washington, D.C.