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The Early Conception Of Sickness And Belief In Navajo Culture

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The early conception with disease and sickness was viewed as a punishment from a god(s). It was more of superstition and myths that primitive people based the reasoning of why a person, or why people were getting sick. As time went on people started to evolve and started using science to try and justify why people were getting sick. In which people started thinking that the cause of disease was due to miasma. They started to assume that there were invisible vapors that floated in the air and people inhaled it. With these the early conception of disease, I still come across superstition with in my own Native American heritage. According to Sanchez, D. (2012), “As a fundamental belief in Navajo culture, one should not disturb the dead, meaning

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