The Lancet, Volume 354, Issue 9180
, Pages 758 - 760, 28 August 1999
doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(99)06050-XCite or Link Using DOI
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Disability and rehabilitation: a context for understanding the American Indian experience
In the USA, American Indians and Alaska Natives include 339 federal and state-recognised American Indian tribes, and 227 federally recognised Native entities in Alaska. There are 175-200 languages spoken by American Indians and Alaska Natives. From a statistical perspective, the diversity of American Indians and Alaska Natives is often lost to the researcher, since in total American Indians and Alaska Natives make up only 0·9% of the US population, or just over 2 million people. 1
Given the divers ...
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a American Indian Rehabilitation Research and Training Center, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA Correspondence to: Dr Catherine A Marshall, 4043 E Alhambra Place, Tucson, AZ 85711, USA
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