Concentrations and Frequencies of Polychlorinated Biphenyl Congeners in a Native American Population That Consumes Great Lakes Fish

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shawn L. Gerstenberger
John A. Dellinger
Larry G. Hansen
Journal of Toxicology. Clinical Toxicology, vol. 38, no. 7, December 2000, pp. 729-746
Description
Study to determine if a potential source for human exposure to hazardous chemicals is the consumption of contaminated fish.
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The Concept of Hikwsi in Traditional Hopi Philosophy

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Maria D. Glowacka
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 2, 1999, pp. 137-143
Description
Explains that hikwsi, which has often been translated as soul or a person's death breath, is much more complex and is actually used to explain human structure and behaviour.
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Concept of Soul among North American Indians

Alternate Title
Native American Symposium ; 9th, 2011
Where No One Else Has Gone Before: Proceedings of the Ninth Native American Symposium
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Oksana Y. Danchevskaya
Description
Discusses the spiritual beliefs of Native American Indians regarding the soul and the afterlife.
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Concepts of Native America

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Robert Houle
ConunDrumOnline, vol. 3, June 2006, p. [?]
Description
Comments on public artworks by artist Edgar Heap of Birds, including a video presentation at Times Square and a large installation for the Denver Art Museum.
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Conceptualizing School Belongingness in Native Youth: Factor Analysis of the Psychological Sense of School Membership Scale

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shadab Fatima Hussain
Benjamin W. Domingue
Teresa LaFromboise
Nidia Ruedas-Gracia
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 25, no. 3, 2018, pp. 26-51
Description
Study uses scale to assess the feeling of belonging (or lack thereof) experienced by two groups of American Indian students, and test its validity for use with this specific population. Further analysis examines how a sense of belonging might act as a protective factor against health and education disparities.
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Conclusions and Commentary

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William Demmert
Peggy McCardle
Kathleen Leos
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 45, no. 2, 2006, pp. 77-88
Description
Discussion of the workshop Improving Academic Performance Among American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Students, including major issues, challenges, solutions and summary.
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"Concourse and Periphery" in Perspective: Well Past Planning

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Judith Ostrowitz
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 3/4, Summer/Fall, 2005, pp. 384-425
Description
Commentary on the planning process plus the public and critical reaction to the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian in 2004.
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Condition and Needs of the Indian Tribes (January 1860)

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christopher C. Andrews
The North American Review, vol. 258, no. 4, Special Heritage Issue: The Indian Question, 1823-1973, Winter, 1973, pp. 26-33
Description
Review of the Reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1855-58. Originally published in The North American Review, January, 1860.
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Conduct Disorder, War Zone Stress, and War-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms in American Indian Vietnam Veterans

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Denise Dillard
Clemma Jacobsen
Scott Ramsey
Spero Manson
Journal of Traumatic Stress, vol. 20, no. 1, February 2007, pp. 53-62
Description
American Indian Vietnam Veterans Project (AIVVP) conducted interviews with veterans covering the areas of premilitary history (including childhood), Vietnam experience, and postservice factors, as well as symptoms of mental illness.
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Conducting Sacred Research: An Indigenous Experience

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Roxanne Struthers
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 16, no. 1, Spring, 2001, pp. 125-133
Description
Discusses background research associated with the authors thesis and the importance of reflecting the cultural worldview of the researcher and the participants.
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Conflict Over the Future of the Past

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Christopher Little
Totem, vol. 14, no. 1, 2006, pp. [45]-57
Description
Discusses the history of American archaeology in conflict with Native Americans specifically the battle for Kennewick Man/The Ancient one and solutions to the conflict.
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Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Franklin K. R. Cline
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 28, no. 3, Fall, 2016, pp. 111-113
Description
Book review of Conflict Resolution for Holy Being by Joy Harjo.
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Conflicting Perspectives on the Role of the Village Public Safety Officer in Native Villages in Alaska

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Otwin Marenin
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 3, Summer, 1994, pp. 297-319
Description
Study uses information from surveys of villagers and service providers—including VPSO coordinators, Alaska State Troopers, business owners, social services workers, BIA employees—conducted in two different villages to contrast the different perceptions of Village Public Safety Officers (VPSOs).
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Confluence: Water as an Analytic of Indigenous Feminisms

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Joanne Barker
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 3, Indigeneity, Feminism, Activism, 2019, pp. 1-40
Description
A discussion of Indigenous feminist politics and the relationship between Indigenous women and water using the Flint water crisis and NoDAPL action at Standing Rock to illustrate.
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Confronting Cannabis: Legalization on Native Nation Lands and the Impacts of Differential Federal Enforcement

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Courtney Lewis
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 4, Fall, 2019, pp. 408-438
Description

Author examines the laws and enforcement practices of the United States in relation to Indigenous nations that choose to legalize medical, recreational, or agricultural cannabis. Article also considers the economic consequences of the legislation and its enforcement.

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Confronting Oral Health Disparities among American Indian/Alaska Native Children: The Pediatric Oral Health Therapist

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David A. Nash
Ron J. Nagel
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 95, no. 8, August 2005, pp. 1325-1329
Description
Discusses introducing the pediatric oral health therapist into the tribal health care system as an alternative way to address problems with dental disease and access to care.
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Conjuring Among the Kiowa

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Donald Collier
Primitive Man, vol. 17, no. 3/4, Jul.-Oct. 1944, pp. 45-49
Description
Looks at conjuring rites among the Kutenai, Blackfoot, Kiowa, Assiniboine, Gros Ventre, Cheyenne and Plains Cree.
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Connect and Divide: The Cell: A Conversation with Edward Poitras

Alternate Title
Border Zones.ca: The Ideas Behind the Exhibit, 23 January-12 September 2010
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Karen Duffek
Edward Poitras
Description
Artist discusses his work in terms of the concept of boundaries in relation to communities and individuals. Duration: 9:08.
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Connecticut River Valley Awakening

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alice Azure
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 24, no. 3, Fall, 2012, pp. 115-137
Description
Author looks at her formative years, living with her parents and living in a Children's Home. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 115.
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Connection and Commitment: The Career of Carrie Billy

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Richard Peterson
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 27, no. 2, American Indian Law, Winter, November 8, 20015, pp. [34-35,7]
Description
Profiles CEO and president of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC)
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Conquest and Recovery in Early Writings from America

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Larzer Ziff
American Literature, vol. 68, no. 3, September 1996, pp. 509-525
Description
Focuses on explorer Captain John Smith's descriptions of the New World and Roger Williams' A Key into the Language of America.
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Conquistadors

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stephen Graham Jones
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 14, no. 4, Series 2, Winter, 2002, pp. [79]-80
Description
Brief short story titled Conquistadors by Stephen Graham Jones, which is told in one very long sentence. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Conscription, Sovereignty, Land: American Indian Resistance during World War I

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Erik M. Zissu
Pacific Historical Review, vol. 64, no. 4, November 1995, pp. 537-566
Description
Argues that resistance occurred for several reasons including that the draft infringed on American Indians' status as non-Citizens, who could not be required to register for service and endangered federal protections of tribal sovereignty resulting in the acceleration toward assimilation, which had been attempted through the allotment process and the liquidation of tribal lands.
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The Consequences of Social Processes: Aggregate Populations, Projectile Point Accumulation, and Subsistence Patterns in the American Southwest

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Fumiyasu Arakawa
Christopher Nicholson
and Jeff Rasic
American Antiquity, vol. 78, no. 1, January 2013, pp. 147-165
Description
Looks at different hunting patterns of large game in McElmo-Yellow Jacket, Mesa Verde and the Ute Mountains and how social processes have an effect on large game hunting.
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Conservation Native American Style

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Terry L. Anderson
Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, vol. 37, no. 4, 1997, pp. 769-785
Description
Looks at the myth of the Native American environmental ethic and the use of traditions, rules, laws and habits to look after natural resources.
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