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Congress orders medical care for Native people to be provided by the War Department.
Date: 1803
Indigenous
Medical system (Western medicine)
Laws/legislation/policy
War & massacres
The federal government assigns the War Department the responsibility of providing medical care to Indigenous peoples living under treaty or U.S. law.
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