Heitkamp to host field hearing on Native American trauma [TheDickinsonPress.com]
U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp said Friday she will host the Senate Indian Affairs Committee’s first field hearing on the impacts of trauma on Native American communities next week in Bismarck. The hearing will begin at 9:15 a.m. Wednesday at the Lewis Goodhouse Wellness Center at United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck. Heitkamp’s office said the hearing builds on a series of congressional briefings she initiated in May in Washington, D.C., to raise awareness among members of Congress about...