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Apache Health and Wellness: A Study of the Tribe's Medical Practices
An overview of Apache health from traditional healing through reservation-era hardship to today's tribal health services, clinics and wellness programs.
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Health and Wellness
Traditional healing and Apache health from past to present.
Apache Apache Apache Health and Wellness: A Study of the Tribe's Early Medical Practices
How confinement, poor rations and new diseases harmed Apache health in the reservation era, and how families and communities endured it.
Apache Apache Health and Wellness: A Study of the Tribe's Early Medical Practices
A restrained overview of traditional Apache healing, covering plant knowledge, specialists and ceremony at a public level, and why some knowledge stays private.
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