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Center of Excellence, School of Medicine
University of Kansas Medical Center

This  library collection  is  related to cultural minority and underserved populations   and  educational a n d  career   opportunities   in   medicine   is  housed  at  the  A. R. Dykes Library at KUMC. Please visit us.

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NEW TITLES:

Journal of American Indian Education
First issue received 2-20-03: . View table of contents and many full-text articles online at:  http://jaie.asu.edu/vols.html 


Closing the Gap Newsletter
from the Office of Minority Health Resource Center, US Government: http://www.omhrc.gov/omhrc/publications/publications.htm 

Listed are a few titles from the MIRC collection related to American Indian culture and healthcare:

Voices of American Indian assimilation and resistance : Helen Hunt Jackson, Sarah
Winnemucca, and Victoria Howard
/ Siobhan Senier. 

Managed care in American Indian and Alaska native communities / Mim Dixon.

Health and the American Indian / Priscilla A. Day, Hilary N. Weaver, editors. 

Rotting face : smallpox and the American Indian / R.G. Robertson. 

American Indian stereotypes in the world of children : a reader and bibliography.

Resiliency in Native American and immigrant families / editors, Hamilton I.
McCubbin ... [et al.]. 

Primary care of Native American patients : diagnosis, therapy, and epidemiology /
edited by James M. Galloway, Bruce W. Goldberg, Joseph S. Alpert ; foreword by
Michael H. Trujillo. 

American Indian tribal governments / by Sharon O'Brien. 

Saving the reservation : Joe Garry and the battle to be Indian / John Fahey. 

Two spirit people : American Indian, lesbian women and gay men / Lester B.
Brown, editor. 

Documents of United States Indian policy / edited by Francis Paul Prucha. 

Counting coup : a true story of basketball and honor on the Little Big Horn / Larry Colton. 

Indian orphanages / Marilyn Irvin Holt. 

Away from home : American Indian boarding school experiences, 1879-2000 / edited by
Margaret L. Archuleta, Brenda J. Child, and K. Tsianina Lomawaima. 

Urban Indian experience in America / Donald L. Fixico. 

Confounding the color line : the Indian-Black experience in North America / edited by James F.
Brooks. 

Cultural issues in end-of-life decision making / editors, Kathryn L. Braun, James H. Pietsch,
Patricia L. Blanchette. 

Race, gender, and health / Marcia Bayne-Smith, editor. 

American Indian health : innovations in health care, promotion, and policy / edited by Everett
R. Rhoades. 

Assessing and treating culturally diverse clients : a practical guide / Freddy A. Paniagua. 

Dressing in feathers : the construction of the Indian in American popular culture / edited by S.
Elizabeth Bird. 

Medicine ways : disease, health, and survival among Native Americans / edited by Clifford E.
Trafzer and Diane Weiner. 

Resiliency in Native American and immigrant families / editors, Hamilton I. McCubbin ... [et
al.]. 

Family violence and men of color : healing the wounded male spirit / Ricardo Carrillo, Jerry
Tello, [editors]. 

Altered states of consciousness and mental health : a cross-cultural perspective / edited by
Colleen A. Ward. 

Health communication : a multicultural perspective / edited by Snehendu B. Kar, Rina Alcalay,
with Shana Alex. 


updated: 2-20-02/8:31AM/Tone Mendoza