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Havasupai woman receives injection from PHS officer,
Grand Canyon, Arizona, late 1960's

"If you knew the conditions...":
Health Care to Native Americans

The Online Version of an Exhibit
Held at the National Library of Medicine
15 April -- 31 August 1994
Lobby, Building 38
National Institutes of Health

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Early United States Government Interest
  in Native American Health
• United States 19th-Century Doctors'
  Thoughts about Native American Medicine
• Indian School Hospitals Under the
  Office of Indian Affairs (c.1883-c.1916)
• Reservation and Hospital Health Care
  Under the Office of Indian Affairs (c.1890-1925)
• The Meriam Commission and Health Care Reform (1926-1945)
• Transfer to Department of
  Health, Education, and Welfare (1946-1969)
• Indian Health Service Today
• Carlos Montezuma (1865-1923)
  Native American M.D., Author
• Charles Alexander Eastman (1858-1939)
  Native American M.D., Author
• Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865-1915)
  First Native American Woman M.D.

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