The "Flu" Among The Navajos.

Description: 

The terrible course of the epidemic as it travels through students at a boarding school in Tuba City is described, followed by the effects of the flu at Hopi. Whole families died, sheep went unattended, many dead bodies were abandoned and left unburied on both reservations. List of Navajos who died within a radius of 25 miles of the Marsh Pass boarding school is included. Five Paiutes were also found dead on a trail and were buried by two Mormon men who discovered them.

People: 
Hopi, Mohave, Navajo, Paiute, Pueblo, Pueblo of San Juan
Location Description: 

Arizona AZ; New Mexico NM; Utah UT

Protocol: 
UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center Public Access
Community: 
UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center
Category: 
Death, Diseases, Miscellaneous, Traditional Treatment, Tribal Actions
Original Date: 
1921
Creator: 
Reagan, A.B.
Language: 
English
Rights: 
Records indicate that the UNM Health Sciences Library owns a copy of this item, but there may be a need to clear rights with a copyright holder prior to sharing with the public.
Source: 
American Journal of Physical Anthropology; 30:131-39.
Identifier: 
9900708
Subject: 
Boarding Schools, Death, Disease Outbreaks, Influenza, Traditional Medicine
Type: 
Monograph