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Navajo leaders say cuts to federal health programs outside the Indian Health Service are hurting Native Americans .
Health officials say slashed federal staffing has made it harder to get technical support and money for federally funded health projects they run.
Tribes have lost more than $6 million in grants from other HHS agencies, the National Indian Health Board wrote in a May letter to Kennedy .
Kennedy has said his focus on Native American health stems from personal and family experience.
Some tribal leaders say the recent cuts, and the way the administration made them, violate treaties.
“This is not just a moral question of what we owe Native people,” Sen. Brian Schatz said at the hearing.
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