For the first time, traditional Native healing services could be covered under Medicaid for Utah’s tribes

The Navajo, or Diné, language doesn’ t have a word for diabetes, so when Ernest Harry Begay sees Native patients who have the condition he instead translates it to them as“ being killed by sugar.”. They want to be healed through the traditional Indigenous methods the tribe has used for generations, and Begay offers that care as a licensed counselor and healer in the…