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A 6 page overview of the historic and contemporary issues confronting Native Americans. The author condenses these issues into three main categories: health, land and leadership. Background information is provided for each category and the reasons for its importance are emphasized in terms of statistics and historic and future applicability. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Europeans that invaded their lands. Most of these issues revolve around problems caused with the exposure to European expectations and, indeed, demands. European culture was almost one-hundred percent
different from Native American culture. This difference resulted in friction between the Europeans and the Native Americans. It also resulted in tremendous losses of land and culture and
in Native American exposure to different foods, alcohol, and disease which were in fact detrimental to Native American health. Most of these issues can be condensed down into three
categories: health, land, and leadership. Health Native
Americans had existed for centuries with exposure only to the foods and diseases which were present in the Americas. With the European arrival to their lands there was a
two-way exchange of both foods and diseases. Entire cultures were simply wiped out by diseases such as the Native American had never before experienced and consequently to which they
had no natural resistance. The differences in specific resistance to disease would result in the Native American peoples being practically wiped out when they came in contact with European
diseases such as smallpox, malaria, measles, cholera, tuberculosis, scarlet fever, whooping cough, mumps, influenza and typhoid fever as well as with various pathogens such as internal parasites some of which
were previously unknown to Native American populations (Stoffle, Jones and Dobbyns, 1995). At first the decimation centered around the coastal areas
but it gradually began to spread inland as well (Foner and Garraty, 1991). Although this great nation was not entirely destroyed it was essentially cut in half reducing its
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