| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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Book Review

Healing Ways: Navajo Health Care in the Twentieth Century. By Wade Davies. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001. xvi, 248 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8263-2276-X.)

This book promises a general overview of the history of Navaho health care, a subject on which there is already a considerable literature, far more than on other reservation populations. Indian health care is primarily provided by the federal government, and Indian health policy has fluctuated along with general federal Indian policy. It has had a somewhat less capricious history because, whether the policy aim is assimilation, termination, or self-determination, the basic human need for health care is a constant. Who is to provide it and how does it change, that is what this book usefully examines for the Navaho. . . .

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