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      The “Elephants in the Room” in U.S. global health: Indigenous nations and white settler colonialism

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                PLOS Glob Public Health
                PLOS Glob Public Health
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                PLOS Global Public Health
                Public Library of Science (San Francisco, CA USA )
                2767-3375
                5 July 2022
                2022
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                : e0000719
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                [1 ] Oglala Lakota Nation, Oceti Sakowin Land, United States of America
                [2 ] School of Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
                [3 ] Hunkpati Dakota Nation, Oceti Sakowin Land, United States of America
                [4 ] Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
                University of Calgary, CANADA
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                10.1371/journal.pgph.0000719
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                © 2022 Jensen, Lopez-Carmen

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