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  2. Health of Native Americans in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The leading causes of death by percentage for Native Americans and Alaska Natives in 2005. Heart disease accounted for 25% of deaths, cancer 22%, accidents 19%, diabetes 7%, liver disease 6%, suicide 6%, respiratory diseases 6%, stroke 4%, homicide 3%, and influenza and pneumonia 3%. Native Americans share many of the same health concerns as ...

  3. Traditional medicine - Wikipedia

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    There are many ethnobotany plants involved in traditional medicine for Native Americans and some are still used today. When it comes to Native American traditional medicine, the ideas surrounding health and illness within the culture are virtually inseparable from the ideas of religion and spirituality. [35]

  4. Medicine man - Wikipedia

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    Medicine man. An Ojibwe midew 'ceremonial leader' in a mide-wiigiwaam 'medicine lodge'. A medicine man (from Ojibwe mashkikiiwinini) or medicine woman (from Ojibwe mashkikiiwininiikwe) is a traditional healer and spiritual leader who serves a community of Indigenous people of the Americas. Each culture has its own name in its language for ...

  5. Navajo medicine - Wikipedia

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    Navajo medicine covers a range of traditional healing practices of the Indigenous American Navajo people. It dates back thousands of years as many Navajo people have relied on traditional medicinal practices as their primary source of healing. However, modern day residents within the Navajo Nation have incorporated contemporary medicine into ...

  6. Native American disease and epidemics - Wikipedia

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    It is true that health disparities and cholera still exist today, specifically in native american communities. Today there have been a reported 1.3 to 2 million cases across the world and 21,000 to 14,300 deaths (WHO) [ 101 ] Limited access to clean water and poor healthcare infrastructure contribute to the Cholera cases and deaths we see today.

  7. Joseph Gone - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Patrick Gone (born 1967) is a clinical and community psychologist, social scientist, and academic. He is Professor of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University. He is also the Faculty Director of the Harvard University Native ...

  8. Traditional Alaska Native medicine - Wikipedia

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    Traditional Alaska Native medicine. Traditional Alaska Native medicine is a cultural style of healing that has been passed down from one generation of Alaska Native peoples to the next and is based on success over time and oral tradition. In contrast to an allopathic or western view of medicine, traditional Alaska Native medicine believes that ...

  9. Sterilization of Native American women - Wikipedia

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    A direct effect of sterilization of Native American women was that the Native American birth rate decreased. [20] In 1970, the average birth rate of Native American women was 3.29, but it declined to 1.30 in 1980. The birthrate of Apache women fell from 4.01 to 1.78. In comparison, the average white woman birth rate fell from 2.42 to 2.14. [33]