August 18, 2019

Walking Forward awarded $3 million grant to improve tribal cancer care

Author: Anson Mareus

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) --- Walking Forward, announced a five-year grant of $3 million from the National Cancer Institute.
The funding will go toward a two-phase study to bring the Oglala, Sicangu and Cheyenne River tribes, the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board, South Dakota State University’s School of Nursing, the Indian Health Service Great Plains Region and the Rural Health and Palliative Care programs at Massachusetts General Hospital together. The group will be studying issu