Death Stalks the Yakama : Epidemiological Transitions and Mortality on the Yakama Indian Reservation, 1888-1964.

Clifford Trafzer's disturbing new work, Death Stalks the Yakama, examines life, death, and the shockingly high mortality rates that have persisted among the fourteen tribes and bands living on the Yakama Reservation in the state of Washington. The work contains a valuable discussion of Indian b...

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