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Exploring Possibilities for Indigenous Suicide Prevention: Responding to Cultural Understandings and Practices

Alternate Title
Critical Suicidology: Transforming Suicide Research and Prevention for the 21st Century
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Lisa M. Wexler
Joseph P. Gone
Comments on three normative assumptions about standard suicide prevention strategies. Chapter 3 from Critical Suicidology: Transforming Suicide Research and Prevention for the 21st Century edited by Jennifer White, Ian Marsh, Michael J. Kral, Jonathan Morris.
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Exploring the Longhouse and Community in Tribal Society

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jodie A. O'Gorman
American Antiquity, vol. 75, no. 3, July 2010, pp. 571-597
Looks at the different kinds and scales of communities using longhouses compared to other forms of housing.
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Exploring the Relationship between Sense of Coherence and Historical Trauma among American Indian Youth

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William Evans
Bret Davis
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 25, no. 3, 2018, pp. 1-25
Multi-method study which explores intergenerational trauma and factors of resilience through a SOC framework. Results provide preliminary evidence that people with a higher SOC have more resistance resources and an increased ability to cope with stressors.
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Exploring the Stories Behind Native American Boarding Schools

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Library of Congress

Lesson plan involves students looking at primary source documents about people (Indigenous and non-Indigenous) who participated in the schools and then assuming their identity and writing a journal.

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Expressions of Policy Effects: Hearing Memories of Indian Residential Schools

Alternate Title
Productive Remembering and Social Agency
Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Lyn Daniels

Compares the treatment of Jewish people in the fictional story of Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald with children's experiences in residential schools in Canada, and Indian boarding schools in the United States.

Chapter from Productive Remembering and Social Agency edited by Teresa Strong-Wilson, Claudia Mitchell, Susann Allnutt, and Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan.

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Extending the Public Health Impact of Screening for Diabetes in High-Risk Populations: Opportunities in American Indian Communities

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Todd S. Harwell
Carrie S. Oser
Carol Strasheim
Terry D. Dennis
Kelly R. Moore
et al.
Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, vol. 11, no. 6, November/December 2005, pp. 537-541
Suggests that high risk populations, including American Indians, should look at ways to increase blood glucose screening to identify those at risk for diabetes or metabolic syndrome.
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Eyewitness at Wounded Knee

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Dawn G. Marsh
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 2, Summer, 2012, pp. 235-236
Book review of: Eyewitness at Wounded Knee by Richard E. Jensen, R. Eli Paul, and John E. Carter.
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FACES: Implementing the Indian Child Welfare Act

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Shenandoah Films
Chet Jarboe
Holli Jackson
Jordan Packer
Tom Lidot
Vern Korb ... [et al.]
Comments on the importance of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) of 1978 which is meant to address the problem of children being placed outside of their families and communities. Duration: 12:00.
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Facilitating Language and Literacy Learning for Students with Aboriginal English Dialects

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sharla Peltier
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 32, no. suppl., Aboriginal Englishes and Education, 2010, pp. 114-142, 155
Discussion on Aboriginal English dialects; regional variation and linkage to community of origin; and looks at language and literacy learning issues, socialization process, cultural identity, and Aboriginal language retention.
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Facing the Fire: American Indian Literature and the Pedagogy of Anger

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jeffrey Berglund
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1/2, Winter/Spring, 2003, pp. 80-90
Discusses the roots of Native American anger and suggests that rather than trying to avoid it, everyone involved should explore the causes and develop a true understanding of them.
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Fact or Fiction? (Genre) Boarder Crossing in American Indian Film

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lee Schweninger
Post Script, vol. 29, no. 3, Indian Cinema, Summer, 2010, pp. 94-[?]
Discusses various documentary and narrative fiction films and shows how embedded historical and cultural information is meant to educate the viewer and undermine the notion of fixed genre.
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Fact Sheet: First Nations Post-Secondary Education

Alternate Title
First Nations Post-Secondary Education
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Assembly of First Nations (AFN)
Looks at participation in and completion of post-secondary education for First Nations people in Canada.
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Factors and Events Leading to the Passage of the Indian Child Welfare Act

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Marc Mannes
Child Welfare, vol. 74, no. 1, January-February 1995, pp. 264-82
Discusses the law passed in 1978 as result of actions initiated by the Devils Lake Sioux in collaboration with the Association on American Indian Affairs (AIAA); the objective was to reverse the trend of out-of-home placement, and in particular trans-racial placements.
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Factors Associated With American Indian Teens' Self-Rated Health

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tassy Parker
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 11, no. 3, 2004, pp. 1-19
Findings reveal that variance between individuals correlates with family financial status, school achievement and marijuana use.
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Factors Associated with Overweight among Urban American Indian Adolescents: Findings from Project EAT

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Amy J. DeLong
Nicole I. Larson
Mary Story
Dianne Neumark-Sztainer
Anne M. Weber-Main ... [et al.]
Ethnicity & Disease, vol. 18, Summer, 2008, pp. 317-323
Study reveals obesity prevention programs should focus on reducing time spent watching television, screening for unhealthy weight-control behaviors, improving body satisfaction and providing support for families to integrate healthy eating into their lifestyles.
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Factors Associated with Successful Functioning in American Indian Youths

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hiie Silmere
Arlene Rubin Stiffman
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 13, no. 3, 2006, pp. 23-47
Examines environmental and cultural factors related to successful functioning in a stratified random sample of 401 American Indian youths.
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Factors Associated with the Personal Assessment of College Among American Indian Students at a Rural University

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Terry Huffman
Rural Educator, vol. 29, no. 3, Spring, 2008, pp. 18-29
Study examined the relationship between gender, age, reservation background, and cultural traditionalism with three variables: assessment of, and transition to college, and the effect of college on appreciation of Native heritage.
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