American Indian health and nursing
(eBooks)

Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I. Indigenous America: Preface; Overview / Margaret P. Moss; Precontact indigenous North America / Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr.; Postcontact, sovereignty, and health / Margaret P. Moss; The roots of American Indian "nursing" / Margaret P. Moss; The Indian health system and nursing / Ruth E. Meilstrup and Margaret P. Moss; Beyond the IHS: indigenous knowledge and traditional approaches to health and healing / S. Neyooxet Greymorning

Part II. Nursing in the 10 cultural areas: regional and tribal issues for nurses: Preface; ; AI/AN elders: mapping cultural areas and regional variances in health / Margaret P. Moss; Northeastern woodlands / Marilynn Malerba; Southeastern woodlands / Lee Anne Nichols; American Indian tribes of the southwest / Nicolle L. Gonzales; Great Basin / Lillian Tom-Orme; California Indians / Bette Jacobs; Pacific northwest/Plateau / C. June Strickland; Alaska / Christopher M. Nelson; Northern Great Plains / Margaret P. Moss and Donna M. Grandbois; Urban American Indians / Lisa Martin and Margaret P. Moss

Part III. Policy, the future of nursing, and Indian country: Preface; Indian health funding: time for change / Marilynn Malerba and Margaret P. Moss; The future of nursing report and American Indian nursing education / Margaret P. Moss

Appendix A. List of federally recognized tribes

Appendix B. 66 state-recognized tribes

Appendix C. About the author.