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- Title
Two Poverties Equal Many Hungry Indians: An Economic and Social Study of Nutrition.
- Authors
Walter, Jonn P.
- Abstract
This article presents an economic and social study of nutrition. The data for this study were collected from the Moapa Valley Southern Paiute Reservation near the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1971, the residents of which represent about 250 of Nevada's approximately 4,000 Indian population. The sample subjects were from approximately the same social stratum with an average per capita income of $350. The sample includes 35 youths between the ages of 14 and 21. This represents essentially all youth in that age bracket living on the reservation. All were interviewed by means of questionnaire. The interviewer had worked with similar Indian youth for a ten-year period and was instructed to conduct interviews away from the parents so that responses might be given more freely. In addition, much information was obtained through intensive observation by the writer who spent much time in and around the reservation. Because calories are more descriptive of dietary quantity than quality, it was considered necessary to construct an index to reflect protein adequacy in the diet.
- Subjects
UNITED States; AMERICA; NUTRITION education; INDIGENOUS peoples of the Americas studies; SOCIOECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; INTERVIEWING
- Publication
American Journal of Economics & Sociology, 1974, Vol 33, Issue 1, p33
- ISSN
0002-9246
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1536-7150.1974.tb03052.x