Book
White man's medicine: government doctors and the Navajo, 1863-1955
University of New Mexico Press • Albuquerque, N. M. • Published In 1998 • Pages:
By: Trennert, Robert A..
Abstract
This document is focused primarily on the efforts of the doctors and nurses of the Indian Service (known later as the Bureau of Indian Affairs) to bring medical care to the reservation Navajo. The primary focus of the study is on the period of 1863-1955. The account presented here discusses federal Indian policy seen largely from the standpoint of government employees. The text describes how the Navajo accepted some aspects of western medicine, yet fiercely fought against pressure to abandon their own healers as the government wanted them to do. 'The result was a long and complicated period of cultural conflict, bureaucratic bungling, politics, bigotry, and good and bad white doctors molded together to battle an overwhelming array of medical difficulties' (p. 10).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2004
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 2003
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- ca. 1860s-1970s
- Coverage Place
- Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico, United States
- Notes
- Robert A. Trennert
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-277) and index
- LCCN
- 97036481
- LCSH
- Navajo Indians