Health and the American Indian
Contributors: Priscilla A. Day (Editor); Hilary N. Weaver (Editor)
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: July 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9780789006585
Subjects: Family & Health; Health systems & services; Illness & addiction: social aspects; Medical / Nursing; Health Care Issues; Health Services For Special Classes; Sociology Of Medicine; Social Science; Medical; Sociology; Indians of North America; Health Care Delivery; General; Medical care; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; Cross-cultural studies; Health; Health and hygiene
First sentence: The Lakota (Teton Sioux) historical trauma response is a constellation of characteristics associated with massive cumulative group trauma across generations, at least since the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre, and is similar to traits identified for Jewish Holocaust descendants (Fogelman, 1988; Kestenberg, 1982/1990).