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Acknowledgments NUMEROUS friends and colleagues have helped with various aspects of this work, and it is with pleasure that I acknowledge their assistance. Much of the early data collection wasdone with the financial support of grant GI-34837 from the National Science Foundation. That was my piece of a large study called the Lake Powell Research Project which brought together in an unlikely consortium investigators from many disciplines and several universities across the country. I am grateful to all my colleagues on the project with whom I shared much bourbon, scotch, and stimulating conversation. I am particularly grateful to Orson Anderson, who originated the study, and to Priscilla Grew who was the executive secretary. Mydebt to Jerrold Levy, who was coordinator of the social science projects and has been both a friend and collaborator before and since, is especially great. My work would not have been possible without the help of many people in the Indian Health Service of the U.S. Public Health Service: David Broudy, Marlene Haffner, Aaron Handler , Edward Helmick, Bill McGovern, and Mozart Spector. In addition, a contract from the Navajo Area Office of the Indian Health Service (No. 245-78-0187) provided helpful support in the later phases of data analysis. John C. Slocumb, a friend since we were medical students and a colleague and collaborator since then, first interested mein demography. I am grateful to him for allowingme to include as part of chapter 3 material first published in an article we wrote together on maternal morbidity and mortality. Charles L. x I Acknowledgments Odoroff and K. Reuben Gabriel have provided invaluable statistical advice and consolation. Kurt Deuschle many years ago encouraged my interest in working as a physician on the Navajo Reservation and more recently has commented upon sections of the manuscript. David Aberle has influenced many of my ideas and as the not-so-anonymous reviewer of the manuscript for the University of California Press has made many very helpful suggestions . Helena Temkin-Greener did much of the data analysis while working with me as a postdoctoral fellow supported by grant IF 32 HD-5806-01 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Charles Leslie has been a ruthless and always supportive editor. Some of the material presented in the book was first published elsewhere. Chapter 1 is a slightly revised version of a paper that first appeared in HumanBiology. Some of the material in chapters 2 and 3 also appeared first in Human Biology and in Human Organization. I am grateful to the editors of each journal for permission to use it here. Chapter 4 is based upon material first published in Ethnicity and Medical Care, edited by Alan Harwood . It is used here with the permission of HarvardUniversity Press. It is customary at this point in the acknowledgments for the author to absolve all his advisors of any responsibility for mistakes and to thank his family for their support through a very trying time. I shall depart from that tradition first by sayingthat if so many smart friends and colleagues have not been able to save me from myself, they carry as large a share of the responsibility as I do, if not larger. I would have listened if they would have only said something. Second, writing this book has been fun. Mywife Izzieand our children Lisaand Danielmade it more fun, even when the latter twowondered out loud why they were being schlepped to England so their father could write a book about America. ...