Gynecic Notes Taken Among the American Indians

Attitudes toward menstruation vary tribally, as do physical characteristics, the prevalence of induced abortion and cultural characteristics such as postures in labor and methods of carrying children. Factors in the increase in problems in Indian tribes include slowness, less than the norm, high death rate, and low birth rate. Morality, or the lack of, are documented in a chart that compares promiscuity with abstinence among designated tribes.