Culturally Sensitive Assessments as a Strength-based Approach to Wellness in Native Communities: A Community-Based Participatory Research Project

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Steven P. Verney
Magdalena Avila
Patricia Rodriguez Epinosa
Cecilia Brooke Cholka
Jennifer G. Benson ... [et al.]
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 23, no. 3, Strength-based Approaches to Wellness in Indian Country, 2016, pp. 271-292
Description
Looks at the benefits of using community-based participatory research when researching culturally sensitive topics like early education experiences.
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Culture as Cultural Defense: An American Indian Sacred Site in Court

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bruce G. Miller
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 1998, pp. 83-97
Description
Author explores some of the issues surrounding and roadblocks to creating a successful legal case for ensuring the court protection of a sacred site.
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Culture: Background for Learning

Alternate Title
Education for Action: Selected Articles from Indian Education 1936-43
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Willard W. Beatty and Associates
Description
Discusses some of the prejudicial views of Native Americans held by general population of the United States and demonstrates how they are based on false assumptions. Chapter from Education for Action: Selected Articles from Indian Education 1936-43.
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Culture Change and Continuity: A Winnebago Life

Alternate Title
North American Indian Thought and Culture
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Gretchen M. Bataille
Kathleen Mullen Sands
Description
Chapter excerpted from American Indian Women Telling Their Lives (p. [69]-82)
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Culture, Context, and Sexual Risk Among Northern Plains American Indian Youth

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carol E. Kaufman
Jennifer Desserich
Cecelia K. Big Crow
Bonnie Holy Rock ... [et al.]
Social Science and Medicine, vol. 64, no. 10, May 2007, pp. 2152-2164
Description
Interviews and focus group discussions conducted to provide a context for sexual risk-taking and decision-making on one reservation.
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The Culture is Prevention Project: Adapting the Cultural Connectedness Scale for Multi-Tribal Communities

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Janet King
Paul Masotti
John Dennem
Shir Hadani
Janice Linton
Bonnie Lockhart ... [et al.]
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 26, no. 3, 2019, pp. 104-135
Description
Describes a community-based, participatory research project in which six urban American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) health organizations in northern California partnered to adapt the Canadian-developed Cultural Connectedness Scale for use in California. Reviews the process and provides information for localized adaptations.
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Culture Isn't Buckskin Shoes: A Conversation Around Powwow Highway

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Toby Langen
Kathryn Shanley
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 3, no. 3, Series 2, Fall, 1991, pp. 23-29
Description
Presents a conversation with Kathryn Shanley regarding the film Powwow Highway Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
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Culture Materials in Schools' Programs for Indian Students

Alternate Title
Presenting the 'con'-troversial side. Culture Materials in Schools' Programs for Indian Students
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Stephen L. Bayne
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 9, no. 1, October 1969, pp. [1-6]
Description
Argues that content is not the entire solution to Native American value preservation and that the form of education is also a factor as well.
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Culture, Trauma, and Wellness: A Comparison of Heterosexual and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Two-Spirit Native Americans

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kimberly F. Balsam
Bu Huang
Karen C. Fieland
Jane M. Simoni
Karina L. Walters
Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, vol. 10, no. 3, August 2004, pp. 287-301
Description
Demonstrates that two-spirit people reported higher rates of childhood physical abuse, more historical trauma in their families, higher levels of psychological symptoms, more mental health service utilization as well as differences in patterns of alcohol use and were more likely to have used illicit drugs other than marijuana
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Cultured Memories: Power, Memory, and Finalism

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Richard Morris
Mary E. Stuckey
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 4, 2004, pp. 1-35
Description
Authors contend that finalism serves as a mechanism that aids the development and maintenance of social amnesia about Native identities and accomplishments, creating a situtation in which Native voices are not just viewed as irrelevant, but also anti-American.
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Cuny Named Ms. AIHEC, Decoteau as Mr. AIHEC

Articles » General
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 17, no. 1, Telling Our Stories, Fall, 2005
Description
Focuses on the two students chosen for the titles by the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC); Darell Decoteau, from Sisseton Wahpeton College, and Lynn M. Cuny from Oglala Lakota College.
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A Cup of Fresh Rainwater

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Charles Brashers
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 1, Spring, 1977, pp. 37-50
Description
Written in the form of a conversation between various people from different tribes discussing issues such as Indigenous unity.
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Curiosity, Cabinets, and Knowledge: A Perspective on the Native American Collection of the Peabody Essex Museum

Alternate Title
Uncommon Legacies: Native American Art from the Peabody Essex Museum
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
John R. Grimes
Description
Discusses the reasoning behind the collection of objects, evolution of the collection, and current issues surrounding the status of Aboriginal art. Excerpt from Uncommon Legacies: Native American Art from the Peabody Essex Museum
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Curly Hair and Big Feet: Physical Anthropology and the Implementation of Land Allotment on the White Earth Chippewa Reservation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David L. Beaulieu
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 4, Autumn, 1984, pp. 281-314
Description
Looks at the court transcripts of the White Earth Chippewa Reservation land allotment fraud cases. Anthropological Professors Albert Jenks and Ales Hrdlicka provided testimony regarding "mixed blooded" and "full Indians" status based on physical characteristics.
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The Currency of Consultation and Collaboration

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ann McMullen
Museum Anthropology Review, vol. 2, no. 2, Fall, 2008, pp. 54-87
Description
Examines the interests of both Indigenous peoples and museums in working collaboratively and understanding the dynamics of payments, reciprocity, traditional knowledge and values.
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Current Approaches to Aboriginal Youth Suicide Prevention

Alternate Title
CMHRU Working Paper; no. 14
Culture and Mental Health Research Unit Working Paper ; no. 14
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Laurence J. Kirmayer
Sarah-Louise Fraser
Virginia Fauras
Rob Whitley
Description
Looks at the success of programs that are community-based and involve active partnerships across sectors.
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Current Indian Educational Issues

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John W. Tippeconnic
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 20, no. 2, October 1980, pp. [1-3]
Description
Five top Native American education leaders identify the important issues facing education in the 1980-81 school year.
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The Current Status of Tribal Water Rights in the United States

Articles » General
Author/Creator
John E. Echohawk
Resources (Canadian Institute of Resources Law), vol. 18, Special Issue: Legal Issues in Aboriginal Water Rights, Spring, 1987, pp. [2]-[4]
Description
Discusses the landmark water rights case decided by the United State Supreme Court in 1908 and the cases currently in the courts. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page [2]
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Curricular Choice in the Age of Self-Determination

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Larry D. Foreman
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 26, no. 2, January 1987, pp. [1-6]
Description
Author states understanding of Aboriginal beliefs is essential toward creating future educational designs.
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Curriculum Review: The Sign of the Beaver: The Problem and the Solution

Alternate Title
American Indian Stereotypes in the World of Children: A Reader and Bibliography
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Sanda Cohen
Description
Teacher explains her objections to the stereotypes in the novel and classroom activities suggested to accompany it. Instead she chose to focus on the theme of friendship found in the story. Excerpt from American Indian Stereotypes in the World of Children: A Reader and Bibliography, 2nd ed. edited by Arlene B. Hirschfelder, Paulette Fairbanks Molin, and Yvonne Wakim.
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Curtis (Edward S.) Collection

Alternate Title
Edward S. Curtis
Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
Edward S. Curtis
Description
Collection contains 1,068 digitized images taken by the famed photographer of Aboriginal peoples in the early 19th century. Many of the images were not included in the multi-volume The North American Indian, so are unavailable elsewhere.
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The Cushman Indian Trades School and World War I

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Charles Roberts
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 3, Summer, 1987, pp. 221-239
Description
Investigates the closing of the Cushman Indian Trade School in1920 due to the First World War, an influenza quarantine, and reduction of federal funding.
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Custer

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
James E. Mueller
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 2, Spring, 2014, pp. 189-190
Description
Book review of: Custer by Larry McMurtry.
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Custer Died for Our Entertainment: The Battle of the Little Bighorn in Film

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Sean T. Painter
The Chico Historian, vol. 24, Oppression, Resistance, and the Formation of Identity, 2014, pp. 44-67
Description
Focuses on two films, They Died with Their Boots On and Little Big Man, that best represent the range of interpretations of Custer and the battle. Entire issue on one pdf. Article located by scrolling to page 44.
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Custer's Last Sitcom: Decolonized Viewing of the Sitcom's "Indian"

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dustin Tahmahkera
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 3, Summer, 2008, pp. 324-351
Description
Author believes televison shows dehumanize Native Americans and takes a critical look at how audiences' percieve representations, what frame of reference the audience uses to evaluate what they view, and argues that there is a need to view representations without accepting the status quo provided in encoded form.
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