Medicine Worse than the Malady: Indian Health, Colonization, and the Wind River Reservation, 1800-1928

Stidolph Jonsson, Julie

Medicine Worse than the Malady: Indian Health, Colonization, and the Wind River Reservation, 1800-1928

dc.contributor.advisor	Yarbrough, Fay
dc.contributor.author	Stidolph Jonsson, Julie
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Metcalf, Warren
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Wrobel, David
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Tracy, Sarah
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Bauer, William
dc.date.accessioned	2014-05-09T14:21:35Z
dc.date.available	2014-05-09T14:21:35Z
dc.date.issued	2014-05-09
dc.date.manuscript	2014-05
dc.description.abstract	At the turn of the century Native Americans represented a wide variety of cultures, economic situations, regions, and historical experiences. Yet unusually high rates of tuberculosis, trachoma, and infant mortality were a troubling and pervasive common thread that ran throughout Indian country. Despite widespread concern among Progressive era reformers and government officials, federal ideas of medical treatment often clashed with Native ideas. This dissertation uses the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming as a case study to uncover the ways discourses about Native American women and Native American health became particularly important to the federal government during the process of colonization. Colonization first obscured and then undermined the reality of Shoshone and Arapaho women’s roles in their communities and the dynamic and effective healing practices they helped maintain. Nevertheless, the historical record, including memories of Native peoples, shows an active rejection of these discourses and the government programs based upon them.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11244/10380
dc.language	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	History, United States.	en_US
dc.thesis.degree	Ph.D.	en_US
dc.title	Medicine Worse than the Malady: Indian Health, Colonization, and the Wind River Reservation, 1800-1928	en_US
ou.group	College of Arts and Sciences::Department of History