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Bureau of Indian Affairs report outlines primary tasks for healthcare workers on Indigenous lands.

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The report lists health education during school and home visits and sanitary inspection of school and agency buildings as top priorities. Field workers, often white Christian women, provide health education and emergency nursing services for the Bureau in this era. Nursing at this point largely refers to companionship and on-site care. By 1900, only 21 field workers are employed on Indigenous lands across the nation and most are untrained volunteers.