Introduction

Clifford E. Trafzer

Diane Weiner

Removing the Heart of the Choctaw People: Indian Removal from a Native Perspective

Donna L. Akers

Blood Came from Their Mouths: Tongva and Chumash Responses to the Pandemic of 1801

Edward D. Castillo

``In the fall of the year we were troubled with some sickness'': Typhoid Fever Deaths at Sherman Institute, 1904

Jean A. Keller

Blinded with Science: American Indians, the Office of Indian Affairs, and the Federal Campaign against Trachoma, 1924--1927

Todd Benson

Infant Mortality on the Yakama Indian Reservation, 1914--1964

Clifford E. Trafzer

American Indian Views of Public-Health Nursing, 1930--1950

Nancy Reifel

Interpreting Ideas about Diabetes, Genetics, and Inheritance

Diane Weiner

The Embodiment of a Working Identity: Power and Process in Raramuri Ritual Healing

Jerome M. Lvi

Meeting the Challenges of American Indian Diabetes: Anthropological Perspectives on Prevention and Treatment

Brooke Olson

Pathways to Health: An American Indian Breast-Cancer Education Project

Felicia Schanche Hodge

John Casken

Cancer among American Indians and Alaska Natives: Trouble with Numbers

Linda Burhansstipanov

James W. Hampton

Martha J. Tenney

The Origins of Navajo Youth Gangs

Eric Henderson

Stephen J. Kunitz

Jerrold E. Levy

Helplessness, Hopelessness, and Despair: Identifying the Precursors to Indian Youth Suicide

Troy Johnson

Holly Tomren

Self-Sufficiency and Community Revitalization among American Indians in the Southwest: American Indian Leadership Training

Jeanette Hassin

Robert S. Young

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