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Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; Introduction, Clifford E. Trafzer and Diane Weiner; ONE DONNA L. AKERS Removing the Heart of the Choctaw People: Indian Removal from a Native Perspective; TWO EDWARD D. CASTILLO Blood Came from Their Mouths: Tongva and Chumash Responses to the Pandemic of 1801; THREE JEAN A. KELLER ""In the fall of the year we were troubled with some sickness"": Typhoid Fever Deaths at Sherman Institute, 1904; FOUR TODD BENSON Blinded with Science: American Indians, the Office of Indian Affairs, and the Federal Campaign against Trachoma, 1924-1927.;Improving the dire health problems faced by many Native American communities is central to their cultural, political, and economic well being. However, it is still too often the case that both theoretical studies and applied programs fail to account for Native American perspectives on the range of factors that actually contribute to these problems in the first place. The authors in Medicine Ways examine the ways people from a multitude of indigenous communities think about and practice health care within historical and socio-cultural contexts. Cultural and physical survival are inseparable for.
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