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edited by Everett R. Rhoades, MD, 459 pp, $65, ISBN 0-8018-6328-7, Baltimore, Md, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2001;155:1180.

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This book tells one of the great untold tales of health care in the United States: the campaign to improve the health of American Indians and Alaskan Natives. The narrative of this book starts with the arrival of North America's first inhabitants, does a fast forward to their first contact with the diseases of European explorers, and then scrolls us through contemporary Native American health status and health services issues. If any person were qualified to choreograph the telling of this story, it would be the editor, Dr Everett Rhoades, a Kiowa tribal member, an eminent former director of the Indian Health Service (IHS), and an academic physician from Oklahoma.

According to Rhoades, this book "is offered to counter the thesis that Indian ills are the result only of government neglect." In the editor's view, such a view is the "ultimate patronization of Indian people" and that much more historical . . . [Full Text of this Article]