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Contemporary Practices in Lakota Healthcare

Objectives: This article provides strategies for health care delivery for the Oglala Lakota on the Pine Ridge reservation of South Dakota. Methods: Both authors relied on their field experience as well as health care literature for constructing this article. Stella Iron Cloud is a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe….

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Original Article

Lakota Health and Healing

This article examines the nature of Lakota health and healing in its traditional form, how the Lakota both adapted to and resisted western medicine, and the state of contemporary healthcare, traditional and western, on the Pine Ridge Reservation and among the Lakota people of South Dakota.

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