...you're recognized, fine. But if you're not federally recognized, people shouldn't get nothing," he said.Valerie Davidson, a senior director at the Anchorage-based Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, estimates that about one-third...

...special training and work under a licensed dentist often not on site, can continue operating in villages, said Valerie Davidson of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. "The fact our local solution to a local problem is going to make...

...need to other high officials in the VA system. "We need them to get the picture," Murkowski said, "so we can get the funding." The consortium runs 180 small village health centers around the state, said director Valerie Davidson.

...clinical site director at the consortium. She spent nine years working in Bethel and outlying villages. When Valerie Davidson was growing up in Aniak, she would wait in line once a year to see the dentist. Davidson, now a director at the...

...needs might be, he said. "It's hard to predict," Spector said. "We're learning this as the war goes on." Valerie Davidson, senior director of legal and intergovernmental affairs for the tribal health consortium, is also scheduled to...