CONTENTS 



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Introduction 221 



The setting 221 



The problem 223 



Techniques of the study 226 



Acknowledgments 227 



The Cherokee 228 



The past 228 



The present 233 



The people 234 



The daily bread 235 



Not by bread alone 240 



As others see them 241 



Ideal types 242 



The typology as an approach to cultural differentiation 243 



The Thomas continuum 245 



Portraits of four families 247 



John and Liza Runner (Conservative) 247 



George and Emma Weaver (Generalized Indians) 250 



Ed and Martha McVey (Rural White) 252 



Richard and Polly King (Middle Class Indians) 254 



Health and medical practices 255 



Environmental sanitation and home hygienic practices 255 



Category 1. Inadequate 256 



Category 2. Minimal 257 



Category 3. Adequate 259 



Category 4. Very adequate 260 



Clinic behavior 260 



Category 1. Passive 261 



Category 2. Active 262 



Responses to school health program 263 



Category 1. Passive 264 



Category 2. Active 265 



Behavior prompted by illness 266 



Category 1. Patients of Indian "doctors" 267 



Category 2. Patients of Public Health Medical Services 271 



Category 3. Patients of private physicians 272 



Conclusions 274 



Educational aspirations and experiences 279 



Aspiration levels 279 



Category 1. High school oriented 279 



Category 2. Post-high-school vocational training oriented 282 



Category 3. College oriented 283 



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