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Article: Urban American Indians, Alaska Natives struggle with growing disparities in health status.
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- The Nation's Health
- Article date:
- December 1, 2007
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In 1970, Keep America Beautiful, a community improvement organization, launched a series of television and print ads showing an American Indian weeping over a piece of litter on the ground. The ads permeated the public's consciousness and raised awareness of what was then a fledgling environmental movement. Today, faced with severe health problems, American Indians are again weeping, but their cries have fallen largely on deaf ears and Madison Avenue has yet to craft a campaign to raise awareness of their plight.
Since the mid-1970s, more than a million American Indians and Alaska Natives have left reservations and other areas, either by choice or by force, and ...