Native Voices: Native Peoples' Concepts of Health and Illness

Native Voices: Native Peoples' Concepts of Health and Illness


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An Actor, Pride, and Native Peoples’s Health

Listen to the NLM Director's Comments on An Actor, Pride, and Native Peoples’s Health. The transcript is also available.
I recently received Eskimo Star, a biography that rediscovers Ray Mala (the Alaska Native who became a movie star in the 1930s). The book reinforces many key issues discussed by some of the Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians featured in NLM’s current exhibition Native Voices: Native peoples’ concepts of health and illness...