The average life expectancy of a male born on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota today is 40 years oldóthe lowest life expectancy of all peoples not on

Disease processes among American Indians and Alaska Natives often have distinct manifestations that need to be considered by clinicians and health policy makers

In 1924, the United States began a bold program in public health. The Indian Service of the United States hired its first nurses to work among Indians living on

"After their sequestering on reservations across the West, American Indians suffered from appalling rates of disease and morbidity. While the United States Indi

Native Americans long resisted Western medicine—but had less power to resist the threat posed by Western diseases. And so, as the Office of Indian Affairs rel