As my last post discussed, my project this summer deals with a series of monthly reports by public health nurses in 1930s Native American communities. Each report includes statistics and a narrative description of the nurse’s work. The narratives are often detailed and evocative, and sometimes represent indigenous voices—those of the handful of Native womenContinue reading “Visualizing 1930s Public Health”
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1930s Nursing in Native Communities
In the 1920s and 30s, the public health nurse or “field nurse” was an important figure on many Native American reservations. These healthcare workers were hired to provide health education and preventative medicine to Native communities. Their work was also supposed to serve the federal government’s larger-scale policies toward Native people, and many of theirContinue reading “1930s Nursing in Native Communities”