How much shorter is the Native American life expectancy compared to the U.S population?
6 years
100
What does IHS stand for?
Indian Health Service
100
What is a native american healer called who focuses on spiritual healing powers to treat people
What is a Shaman
100
These individuals were viewed as disciplinary figures by children
Who are elders
200
What section of the country holds the largest population of American Indians
The West
(wild wild west chika wa wa wa)
200
Native Americans have the ___ highest infant mortality rates in the U.S, right behind African Americans.
What is 2nd?
200
Ihs provides services for _________ million of native americans
1.9 million
200
the process in which the medicine man inflicts a small cut onto the area of conflicted pain
What is Bloodletting
200
These behaviors are seen as offensive in Native American Culture
Directness and assertiveness
300
How did the Native Americans cross over in to north america?
The bering straight
300
What do Inadequate education, poverty, discrimination in health services and cultural differences all contribute to?
Lower life expectancy and disease :(
300
How is IHS funding currently distributed
Based on historical statistics
300
What is the healing practice called involving special, darkened enclosures heated with stones from a fire
What is a Sweat Lodges
300
How were women viewed in the eyes of the tribes and by men
source of creation and strength
400
How Many people in the U.S identify solely as Native American or Alaskan Native?
2.9 million!
400
In California, American Indian Alaskan Native women have the lowest _______ screening compared to any other ethnicity.
Mammogram
400
The average travel time to healthcare service is _____% longer than average U.S. population
60%
400
What is the practice called which involves cleansing a place or person with the smoke of sacred plants, can be used to bring about an altered state of consciousness and sensitivity, making a person more open to the healing techniques.
What is Smudging
400
Who would be the leading mentor in a male childs life
Mothers brother or uncle
500
How long was the trail of tears????
about 2,200 miles
500
in 2005, American Indian and Alaskan Native adults and adolescents ranked the __ highest rate of AIDS diagnoses.
What is THIIIIIRRRDDD
500
Why does the IHS have difficulty retaining staff
Staff and providers are hired through loan payment programs
500
One Indian health belief that is finding its way into modern health care practice is
What is the Medicine Model
500
How are children viewed as by parents, elders, and the tribe itself