Health and Indigenous People: Recommendations for the Next Generation

We are the first people of this land. . . . We are Indigenous peoples throughout this land and all over the planet we call Mother Earth. For American Indians, the reality is that the founding fathers of the United States (none of them Indians), in order to establish a more perfect union that provided them with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, displaced a people who had occupied this continent for thousands of years and denied those people their lives, liberty, and happiness. It is a fact.