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Up in Smoke: A Tradeoff Study Between Tobacco as an Economic Development Tool or Public Health Liability in an American Indian Tribe

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Raymond I. Orr
Carolyn Noonan
Ron Whitener
Stephen M. Schwartz
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 25-40
Considers economic benefits accrued from tobacco sales offset by the higher than average rates of tobacco use by American Indian residents.
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Update: Native North America; Sports and the Native Spirit

Alternate Title
Native North America; Sports and the Native Spirit; Update
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Danielle M. Lazore
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 2, 25 Years of The Indigenous Movement: The Americas and Australia, Summer, 1997
Comments on the role sport has played in Native American culture and the importance of the North American Indigenous Games, which began in 1990.
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Uranium Is in My Body

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rachel L. Spieldoch
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 2, 1996, pp. 173-185
Describes how the Navajo fabric of life was disturbed by uranium mining in the 1940s and 1950s and how the United States Government knew the health risks, but neglected to inform Navajo workers.
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Urban American Indian and Alaska Native Data Sovereignty: Ethical Issues

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Emily A. Haozous
Juliet Lee
Claradina Soto
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 28, no. 2, 2021, pp. 77-97
While the majority of Indigenous people in the United States live in city areas their sovereign rights are left undefined or unprotected compared to if they lived in their traditional tribal communities. This article examines the ethical issues for researchers working with or about urban Indigenous people.
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Urban American Indian Caregiving During COVID-19

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Felina M. Cordova-Marks
Terry A. Badger
Robin B. Harris
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 44, no. 2, COVID-19 and Indigenous Peoples, Part 1, 2020, pp. 5-19
Discusses the results of interviews with twenty survey participants; five themes emerged: concern about care recipient contracting the virus, increased caregiving intensity and medical care issues, changes to personal health behaviors, and support during the pandemic.
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An Urban American Indian Health Clinic's Response to a Community Needs Assessment

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mary Kate Dennis
Sandra L. Momper
Circle of Care Project Team
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 23, no. 5, 2016, pp. 15-33
Looks at present services provided by the American Indian Health and Family Services of Southeast Michigan and results from needs assessment project, Gda'shkitoomi" (We are able).
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Urban Clan Mothers: Key Households in Cities

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Susan Lobo
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 3/4, Urban American Indian Womens Activism, Summer/Fall, 2003, pp. 505-522
Focuses on women who are strong, but low key activists, who extend many services to other urban community members and play many different roles to the people around them.
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The Urban Indian Experience in America

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Liz Grobsmith
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 2, Spring, 2002, pp. 142-143
Book review of: The Urban Indian Experience in America by Donald L. Fixico.
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Urban Indians, Native Networks, and the Creation of Modern Regional Identity in the American Southwest

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cathleen D. Cahill
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 42, no. 3, Native Narratives of Indigenous History and Culture, 2018, pp. 71-92
Article explores how Indigenous opera singers in the Southwestern United States in the 1920's used their platform as performers to publicize Indigenous histories; highlights the mobility of Indigenous peoples and how they helped to create modern urban spaces in the Southwest.
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Urban Rez

Media » Film and Video
Interviews survivors of the 1952 relocation program whereby American Indians were encouraged to leave their home and move to urban centers across the United States. Duration: 56:46.
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The Urban Tradition Among Native Americans

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jack Forbes
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, Special Issue on American Indians and the Urban Experience, 1998, pp. 15-27
Contends that many Native American peoples have lived highly urbanized lives for many millennium, thus dispelling the myth that all these people live in rural areas with a low density of population.
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Ursuline Inheritance

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Amanda Irvine-Louie
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 19, no. 1, Our Story, Our Way, Fall, 2007, pp. 60-61
Presents a poem titled, Ursuline Inheritance, written by Amanda Irvine-Louie.
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US Imperialism and the Problem of “Culture” in Indigenous Politics: Towards Indigenous Internationalist Feminism

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Melanie K. Yazzie
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 3, [Indigeneity, Feminism, Activism], 2019, pp. 95-118
Uses cases studies from Nicaragua and South Africa to compare colonization and imperialistic practices and how these experiences helped with the formation of what the author describes as Indigenous internationalist feminism.
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USDE Violations of NALA and the Testing Boycott at Nāwahīokalani'ōpu'u School

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William H. Wilson
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 51, no. 3, The Native American Languages Act of 1990/1992 - Retrospect and Prospects, 2012, pp. 30-45
Looks at a school that for 14 years has produced 100 percent high school graduation and 80 percent college attendance but is federally required to test students in English rather than the language they are taught in.
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Use and Uptake of Web-based Therapeutic Interventions amongst Indigenous Populations in Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Canada: A Scoping Review

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Rachel Reilly
Jacqueline Stephens
Jasmine Micklem
Catalin Tufanaru
Stephen Harfield … [et al.]
Systematic Reviews, vol. 9, 2020, p. article 123

Findings from 31 studies were summarized by: first author; study population and context; aim/method and health condition, intervention and delivery type; measured impacts/outcomes; explanation for uptake and effects; and authors' conclusions/recommendations.

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Use of Biomedical Services and Traditional Healing Options Among American Indians: Sociodemographic Correlates, Spirituality, and Ethnic Identity

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Douglas
K. Novins
Janette Beals
Laurie A. Moore
Paul Spicer
Spero M. Manson
AI-SUPERPFP Team
Medical Care, vol. 42, no. 7, July 2004, pp. 670-679
Survey results done on 2,595 people from two different tribes that examined the use of biomedical services and traditional medicine for both physical health and psychiatric problems.
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Use of Cognitive Question Testing Methodologies in Participant Action Research: Implementing the Three-Step Test-Interview Method in Indian Country

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas W. Pavkov
Jacob Priest
Kathleen Fox
Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, vol. 18, no. 1, January 2012, pp. 82-90
Reviews importance of culturally competent research and demonstrates how researchers can conduct appropriate research with American Indian and Alaskan Native youth using Three-step method.
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Use of Native Language and Culture (NLC) in Elementary and Middle School Instruction as a Predictor of Mathematics Achievement

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Mark J. Van Ryzin
Claudia G. Vincent
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 56, no. 2, Summer, 2017, pp. 3-33

Examines the correlation between Indigenous driven educational programs and a student's family context to asses the negative and positives effects of Native Language and Culture (NLC) within an educational setting. 

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The Use of Racial and Ethnic Terms in America: Management by Manipulation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jck D. Forbes
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 11, no. 2, Autumn, 1995, pp. 53-65
Examines pre-emptive use of the words America and American by mainstream, effects of denial of right of Indigenous peoples to use the name of their own land and resulting terms like "Native American" and "American Indian."
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Use of the Talking Circle for Comanche Women's Breast Health Education

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Emily A. Haozous
Valerie Eschiti
Jana Lauderdale
Carol Hill
Connie Amos
Journal of Transcultural Nursing, vol. 21, no. 4, 2010, pp. 377-385
Identifies barriers to breast health as being access to information, screening, economics, follow-up, and protecting women
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Usefulness of a Survey on Underage Drinking in a Rural American Indian Community Health Clinic

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
David A. Gilder
Juan A. Luna
Jennifer Roberts
Daniel Calac
Joel W. Grube .... [et al.]
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 20, no. 2, 2013, pp. 1-26
Comments on the higher risk American Indian and Alaska Native youth have for underage drinking and its associated morbidity and mortality.
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The Uses of Humor in Native American and Chicano/a Cultures: An Alternative Study of Their Literature, Cinema, and Video Games

Theses
Author/Creator
Tamara Barreiro Neira
Linguistics, Literature and Culture Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of A Coruña, 2018. Discusses: two narratives by Gordon Henry and Michele Serros, two books of poems by Natalie Diaz and David Tomas Martinez, the films Quinceañera and Smoke Signals, and the video games Never Alone and Guacamelee!.
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Using a Native Language Reference Grammar as a Language Learning Tool

Alternate Title
American Indian Language Development Institute: Thirty Year Tradition of Speaking From Our Heart
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Stacey I. Oberly
Case study using the Ute Reference Grammar. Chapter from American Indian Language Development Institute: Thirty Year Tradition of Speaking From Our Heart edited by Candace K. Galla, Stacey Oberly, G.L. Romero, Maxine Sam, Ofelia Zepeda.
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Using Concept Mapping to Understand Gender- and Age-Specific Factors Influencing Health Care Access among American Indian Elders,

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elise Trott Jaramillo
David H. Sommerfeld
Erik Lujan
Cathleen E. Willging
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 28, no. 2, 2021, pp. 52-76
Using concept mapping to discuss the impact of factors affecting the access to health care for Indigenous elders.
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