Alaskan Natives and Health Promotion NRS 429

Grand Canyon University Family-Centered Health Promotion

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Alaskan Natives and Health Promotion

Health Status, Disparities, and Health Promotion among Alaskan Natives Native peoples in the United States do not form a single ethnic group, and they always have resisted a homogenous definition; they are better understood as thousands of individual communities and cultures(Huff, Kline, & Peterson, 2015, p. 271). Alaskan Natives (AN) are one of the 5 recognized race categories. In general AN are lumped together with American Indians (AI) when it comes to categorizing races. Though AN and AI may share similarities, they actually are very unique and have many differences. For this reason, this paper is...