The Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission has an extensive program to inform Anishinaabe tribal members from northern Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota who harvest and consume walleye about the health risks of consuming these fish, and to encourage harvest and consumption practices that reduce exposure to MeHg. We report here the results of a probabilistic analysis of exposure to met...

Context. Evident change in nutrition and lifestyle among individuals of urban and rural areas raises suspicion for similar change in tribal area population of India. Aim. To study the biochemical risk factor for CVDs in rural and tribal population of Sub-Himalayan state of India. Settings and Design. Cross-sectional study in rural (low altitude) and tribal (high altitude) area of Himachal Prade...

BACKGROUND Differences in the dental arch among Bhil Aboriginals were investigated and compared with non-tribal individuals residing in a tribal zone of Central India. Plaster models (120) were made with the help of alginate impression of tribal adults as well as non-tribal adults residing in the same area. The supposition as aboriginals being primitive due to dietary practices maxillary arch s...

To the extent that a key issue can ever be identified in biology, understanding the significance of the large amount of genetic variation encountered in all properly studied outbreeding plant and animal species is the key issue in population genetics today. A meaningful discussion of this issue is seriously hampered by lack of data on the breeding structure of natural populations. Human populat...

BACKGROUND: The tribal communities of South India are considered to be the original inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent, belonging to the most primitive Dravidian speaking communities. These Dravidian speaking forest dwelling tribal populations have remained isolated from any intermingling with other non-tribal communities. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: We propose to understand the evolutionary proce...

In an unprecedented effort to address the epidemic of diabetes in tribal communities, the Diabetes Education in Tribal Schools project brought together a group of individuals from eight tribal colleges and three federal agencies to develop a diabetes prevention curriculum for American Indian and Alaska Native school children. The curriculum incorporates Western and Native science with culturall...

tribes and villagers in ilam have had significant historical importance. the dynasties that ruled over iran until the age of pahlavi relied on their tribal power and villagers were their main forces and protected the borders against adversaries. during eight years of the iraqi invasion (1359-1367) the revolutionary guards, iranian army, basij, gendarmerie and the revolution committee forces tha...

BACKGROUND National policy on medical pluralism in India encourages the mainstreaming of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha, and Homeopathy) systems and the revitalization of local health traditions (LHT). In Meghalaya state in the northeast, the main LHT is its indigenous tribal traditional medicine. This paper presents the perceptions of tribal medicine and of AYUSH systems among various po...