About Us
Who We Are:
The Indian Health Board of Minneapolis is a community health clinic that provides primary medical care, dental services, mental and behavioral health, and recovery services, along with health and wellness education. The clinic specializes in promoting health care in an urban setting to American Indians, Alaska Natives, and the surrounding diverse Minneapolis community.
Today, the Indian Health Board of Minneapolis operates from two current sites. We serve approximately 4,800 patients annually and more than 2,400 identified as American Indian and/or Alaska Native, and we employ more than 75 people.
Indian Health Board of Minneapolis opened its doors in the Phillips Neighborhood in 1971 after a local Ojibwe woman named Gloria lost her life due to negligent treatment based on her ethnic and racial background. In the 1960s, activists refused to let urban Indians go unseen and ignored any longer in the Twin Cities area, which inspired the formation of a number of organizations, including the Indian Health Board of Minneapolis. For the first time, urban Indians in Minneapolis had access to health care and services from organizations operated by American Indians for American Indian people.