The irony of American Indian health care : The Pueblos, the five tribes, and self-determination, 1954-1968

By the mid-1960s, the federal government had adopted a self-determination policy for American Indian tribes, which involved the maintenance of special federal services for American Indians while allowing Native peoples and governments greater opportunities to shape policy. Riggs examines the implementation of Indian health improvement policies and how those policies affected and were affected by the Five Tribes of Oklahoma and the Pueblos of New Mexico.