Native American Studies

Heath System (modern) Provide American Indian families with health services that promote healing and wellness."Carl Albert Indian Health Facility serves the medical needs of more than 117,000 Native American patients each year from across central and southern Oklahoma. Eligibility requires each patient to have a Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood (CDIB) card from a federally recognized tribe. The hospital is a 53-bed acute care facility, including a 36-bed Medical/Surgical unit, 13-bed OB/GYN …

…were sent to schools like Carlisle in order to learn trades that would allow them to become working members of white society, but this education often worked to create children and young adults who did not have a place in any society. Prejudice would never really allow them to fit comfortably into white communities, and their extensive separation from their families and culture often rendered them cultural outsiders back on the reservations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** None