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Author Trafzer, Clifford E

Title Death Stalks the Yakama : Epidemiological Transitions and Mortality on the Yakama Indian Reservation, 1888-1964
Published East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (294 pages)
Contents Preface; Part One: Introduction; Part Two: The Yakama; Part Three: Yakama Death Certificates: Theoretical and Methodological Orientations; Part Four: Comparison of Yakama Death Rates with Other Populations; Part Five: Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index
Summary Clifford Trafzer's disturbing new work, Death Stalks the Yakama, examines life, death, and the shockingly high mortality rates that have persisted among the fourteen tribes and bands living on the Yakama Reservation in the state of Washington. The work contains a valuable discussion of Indian beliefs about spirits, traditional causes of death, mourning ceremonies, and memorials. More significant, however, is Trafzer's research into heretofore unused parturition and death records from 1888-1964. In these documents, he discovers critical evidence to demonstrate how and why many
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Subject Epidemics -- Washington (State) -- Yakama Indian Reservation -- Statistics
Yakama children -- Nutrition -- Statistics
Yakama children -- Diseases -- Statistics
Yakama children -- Mortality -- Statistics
Yakama Indians -- Mortality -- Statistics
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Epidemics.
SUBJECT Yakama Indian Reservation (Wash.) -- Statistics, Vital
Yakama Indian Reservation (Wash.) -- Statistics, Medical
Subject Washington (State) -- Yakama Indian Reservation.
Genre/Form Statistics.
Medical statistics.
Vital statistics.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780870139604
0870139606