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This 3 page paper uses a web site to help explore how Native Americans may choose to face end-of-life issues. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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traditions of the person and their family. This paper uses a web site to explore how Native Americans may choose to face end-of-life issues. Discussion The web site
is maintained by the Medical Center of the University of Washington in Seattle; the URL is http://depts.washington.edu/pfes/pdf/AmericanIndianCultureClue5_05.pdf. The site is not interactive, since interactive sites are designed to collect
information from the visitor and pass it on to another system; i.e., Amazon.com. Neither is it a "ghost" or "static" site, meaning the information is almost never changed and
the site is hardly ever updated. It is instead whats usually called a "display" site. The information is updated fairly frequently, there are links in the site to
open additional documents, but there is no feedback coming from the other end. In this case, the site is clear and easy to navigate; in fact, it has only two
main topic areas, what it calls "Culture Clues" and "End-of-Life Issues." Under each of these heads are additional links that take the user to another document, usually less than
three pages long, that explains the linked topic in detail. The purpose of the web site is to help medical staff members develop sensitivity to the needs of
people from other cultures. Although we want to consider end-of-life issues for Native Americans, that is not one of the cultures listed under the general topic "End-of-Life Care," so
well have to take what we learn about the culture in general and extrapolate to develop a realistic picture of Native American attitudes toward death. The document about Native American
culture is entitled "Communicating with your American Indian/Alaska Native patient," and tells us that as of the 2000 Census, there were four million people who "identified themselves as American Indian
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