United States

Compares mortality patterns between Alaskan Native and Non-Native population between 1989 to 1998 and trends for period between 1979-1998. Uses data from the Indian Health Service and 1990 Census.

Reviews initiatives by Alaska and examines the applicability to the lower forty-eight states and Canada.

Article explores the successes and challenges of a Haida Language preservation and revitalization program administered by Sealaska Heritage Institute on the Northwest Coast.

Contains transcripts of these early autobiographies and argues that they represent two conceptions of self, each tailored to a different audience and occasion.

Looks at the demand for aboriginal tourism products; the need to educate stakeholders of the benefits of tourism; and develop a vision and long-term marketing strategy for the industry.

Argues that the Alcatraz event was mainly a civil rights movement protest against the very oppressive conditions faced by Native Americans, somewhat like the Ku Klux Klan gathering in 1957 was for the African-American population.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Georgia, 2004.

Concludes that alcohol abuse is tied to the dramatic lifestyle changes that have occurred over a relatively short time.

Examines multiple potential determinants in adolescents - psychiatric disorders, positive familial, social and cultural environments. Results will aid in intervention/prevention strategies.

Social Work Thesis (Ph.D.)--Washington University, 2006.

Results from 20 year follow up study on alcohol use at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation located in North and South Dakota.

Describes study done on alcohol consumption and its association with sexual risk and drug use.

Looks at differences in alcohol-related mortality rates and patterns of alcohol use in the American Indian and Alaska Native populations

Discussion of the "firewater myth," assumptions about binge drinking, differences in social attitude towards drinking, and the move away from the presumption of the existence of single-factor explanations about drinking.

Used data from a national sample to compare Native American with White, Black, and Hispanic caregivers in their need for and receipt of treatment.

Sociology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Montana, 1976.

Discussion of alcohol and contraceptive use among teenagers and strategies for prevention of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS).

Poem.

Identifies four research needs relating to alcohol use including intervention and prevention.

Describes factors causing disorders but reports the data is from specific areas and peoples and cautions against drawing generalized conclusions.

Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 1983.

Public Health Capstone [Project] (MPH)--University of Texas Medical Branch, 2008.

Contends that to be effective, authors should ground their work in their specific culture rather than creating characters who are generic, tribeless and placeless. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Looks at the twin processes of queer and Native spheres in the film and its additional interpenetration of the Shakespearean sphere. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 76.

Discusses the influence of television on the work of Sherman Alexie.

Looks at the United Nations Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995-2004) and future ways to talk about indigenous rights in global forums.

Website contains images of paintings, biography, publications and upcoming events by the noted artist of the American West.

Concise definition of the word Manitou derived from documentation about the Sauk, Fox, and Kickapoo.

Website presents the ability to listen to various phrases spoken in many Algonquian languages such as Cree, Innu, Ojibwe, etc.

Third edition.

Discusses the origin and overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii, and examines how the Ali'i (native Hawaiian chiefs) used their knowledge of law to advance their own existing Indigenous structure.

Book review of: Alien Capital by Iyko Day.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Albany, State University of New York, 2000.

An examination of James Welch's episodic narrative style and its effectiveness in the novel.

A discussion on ritual in James Welch's Winter in the Blood and its a representation of Indigenous Americans fighting their own cultural alienation in society.

Takes a feminist approach to analyzing James Welch's story structure and characters in the novel. The female characters are the cause of and the resolution to the story's conflict.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2009.

[Architecture?] Thesis (M.A.)--Cornell University, 2009.

Poetry and prose.

Book review of: All Indians Do Not Live in Teepees (Or Casinos) by Catherine C. Robbins.

Reviews a number of children's books which are retellings of First Nations legends: Beardream by Will Hobbs. The Day the Sun was Stolen by Jamie Oliviero. Eagle's Gift by Rafe Martin. Echoes of the Elders by Chief Lelooska, edited by Christine Normandin. Frog Girl by Paul Owen Lewis. The Girl Who Dreamed only Geese, and Other Tales of the Far North by Howard Norman, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. The Girl Who Lived with Bears retold by Barbara Diamond Goldin. Messenger of Spring by C. J.

Argues that when business is carried out with a commitment to survivance, relationships and community, it is not in opposition to traditional values. Reports results of qualitative interviews with individual entrepreneurs who incorporate these values into their practices.

Discusses the events leading to the publication of the historical novel that documents two generations of Dakota women in the early 19th century.

Comments on the plot of a group of American miners to take over the Yukon Territory in 1901.

English Thesis (M.A.)--McMaster University, 1996.

Focuses on the mobilization of Native American Tribes in a concerted effort to attain economic goals, with an empahasis on tactics used in relation to gaming on-reserve.

Comments on how artists incorporate expressions of heritage into their songs and music.