Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 23, 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Precontact indigenous North America / Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. -- Postcontact, sovereignty, and health ; The roots of American Indian "nursing" / Margaret P. Moss -- The Indian health system and nursing / Ruth E. Meilstrup and Margaret P. Moss -- Beyond the IHS : indigenous knowledge and traditional approaches to health and healing / S. Neyooxet Greymorning -- AI/AN elders : mapping cultural areas and regional variances in health / Margaret P. Moss -- Northeastern Woodlands / Marilynn Malerba -- Southeastern Woodlands / Lee Anne Nichols -- American Indian tribes of the Southwest / Nicolle L. Gonzales -- Great Basin / Lillian Tom-Orme -- California Indians / Bette Jacobs -- Pacific Northwest/Plateau / C. June Strickland -- Alaska / Christopher M. Nelson -- Northern Great Plains / Margaret P. Moss and Donna M. Grandbois -- Urban American Indians / Lisa Martin and Margaret P. Moss -- Indian health funding : time for change / Marilynn Malerba and Margaret P. Moss -- The Future of Nursing Report and American Indian nursing education / Margaret P. Moss.

"Written by and for nurses, this is the first text to focus exclusively on American Indian health and nursing. In fact, it is likely the only nursing book to even mention American Indian health as a distinct entity. The text addresses the profound disparities in policy, health care law, and health outcomes that affect American Indians, and describes how these disparities, woven into the cultural, environmental, historical, and geopolitical fabric of American Indian society, are responsible for the marked lack of well-being among American Indians"--Provided by publisher