Medicine Women : The Story of the First Native American Nursing School /

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"After the Indian wars, many Americans still believed that the only good Indian was a dead Indian. But at Ganado Mission in the Navajo country of northern Arizona, a group of missionaries and doctors--who cared less about saving souls and more about saving lives--chose a different way and persu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kristofic, Jim, 1982- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ganado Mission (Ganado, Ariz.)
Ganado Mission (Ganado, Ariz.) > History.
Sage Memorial Hospital (Ganado, Ariz.). > School of Nursing > History.
Nursing schools.
Navajo Indians > Medical care.
Indian nurses.
MEDICAL > Osteopathy.
MEDICAL > Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL > Essays.
MEDICAL > Atlases.
MEDICAL > Alternative Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
Navajo Indians > Medical care > Arizona > Ganado > History.
Navajo women > Education > Arizona > Ganado > History.
Indian nurses > Arizona > Ganado > History.
Nursing schools > Arizona > Ganado > History.
Arizona > Ganado.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: Ghosts in the graveyard
  • Prologue: The last night
  • Peace time on bad soil
  • The red house man
  • Greenhorn clergymen
  • Like real men
  • Mechanical tendencies of mind
  • The house with the pointed top
  • The walking doctor
  • Into a large place
  • Water from the rock
  • These dark-minded Indians
  • A miracle in five million pounds of gray stone
  • Practicing medicine in the desert
  • Red women in white
  • The flying lady
  • The Indian child is not capable
  • Fast slipping away
  • No longer feel suspicion
  • Both feet out of the grave
  • We can begin yesterday afternoon
  • A nest of stars
  • An oasis in the desert
  • Teenagers first, Navajos second, Indians incidentally
  • Adventurous, challenging, and enchanting
  • English only
  • The waste places
  • Work with them day to day
  • When she leaves it the task is done
  • A slave camp
  • A flower of our civilization
  • Out into the country
  • This situation has run the length of its course
  • The Ganado Mission High School
  • They had no other choice
  • We have reached a critical point
  • A colorful eroded desert place
  • Epilogue: Chusk'eh Daa : at the bank's edge.

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