| interactions between public health nurses and clients on american indian reservations during the 1930s. | this essay examines the encounters between clients and public health nurses hired by the office of indian affairs to work on american indian reservations during the 1930s. it relies on two different types of sources. the first are the accounts of the nurses, including letters, memoirs, and above all their monthly and annual reports to washington. the second are oral histories conducted by the authors with elderly residents of two sioux reservations in south dakota during august 1993. one of the ... | 1996 | 11613272 |