Changing Patterns of Health and Effective Fertility among the Northern Cheyenne of Montana, 1886-1903
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gregory R. Campbell
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 3, American Indian Family History, Summer, 1991, pp. 339-358
Description
Author challenges the assumption that population growth among Indigenous people during the early reservation period was an indicator of the success of the reservation health care system. Argues that maternal/infant health is a better indicator and considers the Northern Cheyenne people as an ethnohistorical example.