AltaMira Press
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978-0-7425-0255-0 • Paperback • March 2001 • $55.00 • (£42.00)
978-0-7591-1707-5 • eBook • March 2001 • $52.00 • (£40.00)
Clifford E. Trafzer (Wyandot) is a professor of history and director of Native American Studies at the University of California, Riverside. Diane Weiner is a professional research anthropologist at the American Indian Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2
Chapter 1: Removing the Heart of the Choctaw People: Indian Removal from a Native Perspective
Chapter 3
Chapter 2: Blood Came from Their Mouths: Tongva and Chumash Responses to the Pandemic of 1801
Chapter 4
Chapter 3: In the fall of the year we were troubled by some sickness: Typhoid Fever Deaths at Sherman Institute, 1904
Chapter 5
Chapter 4: Blinded with Science: American Indians, the Office of Indian Affairs, and the Federal Campaign against Trachoma, 1924-1927
Chapter 6
Chapter 5: Infant Mortality on the Yakama Indian Reservation, 1914-1964
Chapter 7
Chapter 6: American Indian Views of Public Health Nursing, 1930-1950
Chapter 8
Chapter 7: Interpreting Ideas about Diabetes, Genetics, and Inheritance
Chapter 9
Chapter 8: The Embodiment of a Working Identity: Power and Process in Rarámuri Ritual Healing
Chapter 10
Chapter 9: Meeting the Challenges of American Indian Diabetes: Anthropological Perspectives on Prevention and Treatment
Chapter 11
Chapter 10: Pathways to Health: An American Indian Breast-Cancer Education Project
Chapter 12
Chapter 11: Cancer among American Indians and Alaska Natives: Trouble with Numbers
Chapter 13
Chapter 12: The Origins of Navajo Youth Gangs
Chapter 14
Chapter 13: Helplessness, Hopelessness, and Despair: Identifying the Precursors to Indian Youth Suicide
Chapter 15
Chapter 14: Self-Sufficiency and Community Revitalization among American Indians in the Southwest: American Indian Leadership Training
The greatest strength of this volume is its breadth, especially with regard to diversity of tribe, historical periods, types of illness, and disciplinary emphases....This volume will surely be of interest to those who would like a sample of the health issues plaguing American Indians from colonization and into the present day....
— Lori L. Jervis
This volume presents timely, authoritative, and chilling accounts of disease, death, and sociocultural devastation in Native American and Alaskan communities over the past 200 years.....
— E. Wellin