Tulalip Tribes
Tulalip Tribes
Tulalip Tribal Health Facility
Phone: 360-651-4511
Fax: 360-651-4520
Webpage: www.tulaliptribes.com
About
the Clinic
Location
The Tulalip
Health Center is a 4,500 square foot out-patient clinic in
Services/Programs/Hospitals
The Tulalip Tribal
Health Clinic provides a variety of primary care services with a variety of
funding sources. The tribe is able to offer Dental, a Recovery House and an
Acupuncture program with tribal funds. The MCH Program and the Contract Health
Program are available through IHS 638 funding. The ICW Program is BIA funded.
The CHR Program is joint funded through a 638 IHS
contract and the county. The Family Services program and the Mental Health
Program are joint funded through 3 or more entities.
The clinic employs 3 physicians (1 MD funded through Contract Health 638 funds,
1 MD tribal funded through third party clinic billing, 1 part-time Pediatric
physician MCH 638 funded), 2 ARNP's (1 ARNP MCH 638
funded, 1 ARNP CHN/Health Education/Tribal funded), 1 Public Health Nurse
(funded through a partnership with the Snohomish Health district and the
Tribe).
Functions
Clinic functions include:
- Outpatient Primary & Public Health Care services
- Dental Program
- Chemical Dependency Program
- Recovery House
- Acupuncture program
Patients
There were 3345
Active users in 2002.
About
the Tribe
The Tulalip Tribe is a
federally recognized Indian tribe with a reservation located near the town of
History
The Tribe is organized under the Indian
Reorganization Act of 1934. The constitution and charter were approved in 1936.
The governing body is the Tulalip Board of Directors who are elected to
three-year terms. The
Point Elliott Treaty of January 22, 1855 established the Tulalip Reservation.
When first established it was 22,489.91-acres and an executive order enlarged
it to 24,300-acres. In the 1840s the people became under the influence of the
Roman Catholic missionaries. The tribe did not adapt to agriculture very
quickly like the federal government wanted them to. They stayed with fishing,
hunting and gathering. Many had to start finding jobs off the reservation to
provide for their needs. The allotments were conducted on the Tulalip
Reservation between 1883 and 1909.
Government
The tribe
operates under their constitution and bylaws that were adopted January 24,
1936. The board of directors supervise tribal affairs.
The active committees administer lands, leasing, loans, education, enrollment,
water resources and roads, hunting and fishing and recreation. The tribe did
not file a petition with the Indian Claims Commission for any claim as
successor. In the 1970s more than half of the reservation had been sold to
non-Indians (13,995-acres). There were 4,571-acres owned by Indians,
3,845-acres of that land is tribally owned in trust,
80 of it is owned by the Tulalip Tribe in fee patent-status.
Members
2,800
Total Tribal
Employees
1500
FTE.
About
the Area
Geography
The reservation
occupies a few square miles immediately north of
Climate
Rainfall (
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