Disciplined Hearts: History, Identity, and Depression in an American Indian Community

"This is a good place for your work. Depression is a big problem here. About 70—80% of our people are depressed." When she arrived at the Flathead Reservation in Montana to start an ethnographic study of depression, medical anthropologist Theresa DeLeane O'Nell repeatedly encountered such statements. This astonishingly widespread concern propelled the author into the complex lives of these modern American Indian people and into the historical roots of their contemporary situation.

In Discipl...