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title	:	Death Stalks the Yakama : Epidemiological Transitions and Mortality On the Yakama Indian Reservation, 1888-1964
author	:	Trafzer, Clifford E.
publisher	:	Michigan State University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0870134639
print isbn13	:	9780870134630
ebook isbn13	:	9780585188225
language	:	English
subject	Yakama Indians--Mortality--Statistics, Yakama children--Mortality--Statistics, Yakama children--Diseases--Statistics, Yakama children--Nutrition--Statistics, Epidemics--Washington (State)--Yakama Indian Reservation--Statistics, Yakama Indian Reservation (
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	E99.Y2T73 1997eb
ddc	:	304.6/4/089974
subject	:	Yakama Indians--Mortality--Statistics, Yakama children--Mortality--Statistics, Yakama children--Diseases--Statistics, Yakama children--Nutrition--Statistics, Epidemics--Washington (State)--Yakama Indian Reservation--Statistics, Yakama Indian Reservation (

Page iii Death Stalks the Yakama Epidemiological Transitions and Mortality On the Yakama Indian Reservation, 18881964 Clifford E. Trafzer Michigan State University Press East Lansing

Page iv Copyright 1997 by Clifford E. Trafzer Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, Michigan, USA, 48823-5202 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Trafzer, Clifford E. Death stalks the Yakama: epidemiological transitions and mortality on the Yakama Indian reservation, 18881964 / Clifford E. Trafzer p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87013-463-9 1. Yakama IndiansMortalityStatistics. 2. Yakama children MortalityStatistics. 3. Yakama childrenDiseasesStatistics. 4. Yakama childrenNutritionStatistics. 6. Yakama Indian Reservation (Wash.)Statistics, Vital. I. Title. E99.Y2T73 1997 304.64089974dc21 96-52172 CIP 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 97 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 This study was made possible in part through funding provided by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Phillips Fund of the American Philosophical Society, National Endowment for the Humanities, Newberry Library, Rockefeller Foundation, and the University of California, Riverside. All royalties from the publication of this book will be contributed to the Maternal Child Health Department of the Yakama Nation for prenatal, infant, and children's care.

Page v This book is respectfully dedicated to Yakama children who suffered the wrath of disease on the reservation and to their parents who mourned their deaths. It is also dedicated to my own children, Tess Nashone, Hayley Kachine, and Tara Tsaile who have not had to face the devastation of pneumonia, heart disease, tuberculosis, whooping cough, and other diseases that killed so many native children in the recent past.

Page vii CONTENTS Preface ix Part One Introduction 1 Part Two The Yakama 23 Part Three Yakama Death Certificates: Theoretical and Methodological Orientations 67 Part Four Comparison of Yakama Death Rates with Other Populations 123 Part Five Conclusion 187 Appendix 212 Bibliography 241 Index 267

Page ix PREFACE The present work is an outgrowth of my previous research on various Indian tribes living on the Columbia River Plateau. In 1977, I began research on a book dealing with the history of the Palouse Indians of eastern Washington. During the course of my research, I traveled west with my colleague, Richard D. Scheuerman, to the Yakama Reservation where we interviewed descendants of the Palouse people. As a result, we met Mary Jim and Andrew George, and our association with these and other elders enriched our research and our lives. This was my first acquaintance with the Yakama Reservation, and it is one that has developed over the years. In addition to researching on the reservation, I traveled to Seattle to conduct research at the National Archives, Pacific Northwest Region. There I met the gracious and helpful archivist, Joyce Justice, who introduced me to the papers of the Yakama Indian Agency, and I was impressed with the large collection of materials available dealing with the Yakama Reservation. After becoming acquainted with the collection, I determined that when I finished the Palouse book, I would begin a study of the Yakama Reservation. In 1986, Washington State University Press published Renegade Tribe: The Palouse Indians and the Invasion of the Inland Pacific Northwest, and after the book was released, I started work on a study of the Yakama Reservation. Originally, I intended to write a history of the Yakama Reservation, and I began reading the letters found in the voluminous letter books kept at the National Archives. However, the more I read, the more I realized that the Yakama Reservation was little different from other reservations in terms of administrative history. I asked Joyce Justice if I could review some other documents, including records of the Indian court, birth records, death certificates, bills of sale, and marriage

Page x certificates. These were documents that required a statistical methodology, and I resolved to collect these documents in order to study selected aspects of Yakama social history.

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