Native Americans American Indians

Help provide health care and related services to medically underserved populations—Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, and other population groups with special needs. 

Native Americans had several innovative uses for the wood. The Shasta Indians used it to make, a special knife to out the umbilical cord of a newborn. 

Over the next 30 years, Patterson used mass spectroscopy and clean laboratory techniques to demonstrate the pervasiveness of lead pollution. He traced the relationships between America s gas pump and its tuna sandwiches, between Roman slaves and silver dimes, and between Native American Indians and polar snows. He forged as close a connection between science and public policy as any physical scientist outside of medical research. He made the study of global pollution a quantitative science. And marrying his stubborn determination to his passionate conviction that science ought to serve society, Patterson never budged an inch. 

Other indications Maste Natives and certain American Indian populations and residents of nursing homes or other longterm care facilities. 

Individuals from communities of color are more likely to be uninsured than non-Hispanic whites. Over one-third of Hispanics (37%) are uninsured. They are three times more likely to be uninsured than non-Hispanic whites. Nearly one-fourth of African Americans and one-fifth of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) (Veenstra and Higashi, 2000) and American Indian/Alaskan Natives (AI/AN) are uninsured (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 2002). 

American Indians/ Alaska Natives Marijuana (8.0%) Prescription drugs (2.3%) Hallucinogens (0.2%)... 

Note For some racial-ethnic groups with small populations (such as American Indians and Native Hawaiians), the percentages may not be as accurate as those for larger groups because of sampling techniques. 

I also travel to Indian powwows where I now play the drums and dance, but since my voice was messed up, I don t sing like I used to. I help the Boy Scouts to become Eagle Scouts, and I am a puppeteer. I also go to schools, churches, Veteran Administration and other hospitals, and colleges where I put on my presentation for the Native American Indian. I just turned sixty years old, but in the weekend of June 10, 2006, for three days I qualified for rope rescue in water rescue operations. I don t really feel sixty years old because the Lord gave my life a purpose. 

Terri was a stranger to her Indian heritage in her youth. While visiting a pueblo for the first time as a young adult, she felt a kinship with the Indians, which she could not express. Today her Indian roots shape her life and soul, providing her with healing rituals that help her to cope with her illness. She is an internationally known investigative reporter of chemical injury in the Native American community. 

Native Americans may be more susceptible to MCS because of a P450 enzyme deficiency this enzyme is needed to break down toxic chemicals in the body. Another factor that contributes to poor health in Indian communities is that more toxic wastes are dumped on reservations than anywhere else in the United States. 

When I got involved in the Indian community I started publishing a tabloid called The Portland Indian News. One story I published was called Does MCS Affect American Indians in Higher Numbers The story ended with a big question mark, and was picked up by News from Indian Country, a bimonthly Native paper circulated in all fifty states, the Canadian provinces and eight foreign countries. 

In 2001, the DOE returned the undeveloped Naval Oil Shale Reserve 2 in Utah to the Northern Ute Indian Tribe in the largest transfer of federal property to Native Americans in the last century. 

The tobacco plant was long used by Native Americans before the arrival of Europeans. The word tobacco derives from tabacum, the Indian name for the pipe they used to smoke it. Nicotine, the principle psychoactive chemical in tobacco, was named after Jean Nicot de Villemain, a French diplomat who advocated its use in Europe in the late 1500s (Rudgley 1999). It is less commonly known that tobacco grew wildly in the interior of Australia, and was used by inhabitants there before Europeans arrived. 

The popular western herbalism discussed in this chapter is one of many philosophical systems of herbal treatment. It is also sometimes described as eclectic, since it has drawn on many other traditions, including the native American and Chinese. Chinese traditional medicine. Ayurvedic (Indian), and Tibetan traditions use complex herbal recipes and nutrition to achieve balance in the ill patient. Although these practices are most commonly found in ethnic populations, they are also becoming popular in some western complementary and alternative circles. 

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