Alaska

Education Thesis (Ed.D.)--Harvard University, 1987.

Research suggests that an over reliance on market-based food sources is not wise and that local and regional food sources are best to achieve better overall outcomes.

Cultural and Social Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2005.

Book review of: A Practical Grammar of the St. Lawrence Island / Siberian Yupik Eskimo Language (2nd edition) by Steven A. Jacobson.

Book review of: Looking Both Ways edited by Aron L. Crowell, Amy F. Steffian and Gordon L. Pullar. Review in French.

Results from study on the Chugachik site, Cottonwood Creek site and the Yukon Island Fox Farm Bluff site in 1974.

Political Science and International Relations Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Delaware, 2006.

Comments on the Qik'rtarmiut Alutiit Regional Language Advisory Committee and the work they are doing to ensure preservation of the Alutiiq language for future generations.

Relates how narratives can provide a sense of relief in stories of substance abuse.

Results indicate that community-centered approaches are promising in reducing health disparities for Alaska Native children.

Study shows a significant decrease in amputations after program trained local staff to perform preventative measures.

Evaluates a community based not-for-profit medical group's effectiveness with diabetic management.

Widespread vaccination, begun in 1991 failed to prevent return of this flu strain to rural Alaska in 1996-1997.

Studies a sampling of schools involved in the Alaska Onward to Excellence program to see how partnerships between the school and community are formed and maintained.

Looks at herding problems, technical and economic problems of meat processing and marketing, hide use, herd data, and recommended local markets for product sales.

Looks at challenges, successes, total size and production of the market, and examines socio-economic trade-offs between subsistence and commercial markets.

Comments on the discrimination and poorer health status of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and two-spirit Native American and Alaska Natives compared to mainstream Americans.

Psychology Thesis (M.Sc.)--Oklahoma State University, 2012.

Nursing Thesis (Ph.D.)--Wayne State University, 2000.

Philosophy Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 1977.

Social Welfare Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, 1999.

Case study of a successful teaching approach that combined the mathematical content with the indigenous culture.

American Indians and Alaska Natives were compared to general population on demographic variables, alcohol problems, and religious affiliations and practices. Found that those who engaged in Native-specific spiritual practices had lower alcohol use.

Focuses on the Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC).

Looks at how the drop in sealskin prices has impacted seal hunters in Alaska, Canada and Greenland.

Study analyzes 24 years of US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission data (1991-2015) from eight states to examine the degree to which Indigenous people are overrepresented in the lower paying, less desirable, non-managerial, public sector positions in local and state government bureaucracies and underrepresented in the more desirable, better paying, managerial positions.

Findings suggest that renewables, in the form of wind generation, play an important role in providing energy needs, particularly for remote communities.

Examination of the internet through Inuit perspectives.

History Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia,1994.

Article examines how contemporary Alaska Native art is exhibited to the public in an effort to decrease stereotyped images.

Article summarizes main themes of a Symposium with health care providers, researchers, elders and public health officials. Focuses on identifying emerging challenges, trends and potential solutions for the increasing number of infants and children affected by prenatal opioid use.

Discusses the shift from assimilationist efforts in education to efforts to revitalize Native languages and cultures in support of an approach that values both Native and Western knowledge.

Traces the development of principles and guidelines for the conduct of scientific research in the Arctic.

Looks at a benefit of discussing the misalliance of the Barrow Alcohol Survey affair.

Social Work Thesis (Ph.D.)--Smith College School for Social Work, 2003.

Religion Thesis (Ph.D.)--Emory University, 2002.

Discusses if resource development will improve the well-being of people in the northern communities or add to the growing gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people.

Looks at changes to state and federal laws regarding child welfare proceedings.

Compares and contrasts the socio-economic organization of Inuit from coastal north Alaska and the Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territories.

Rebuttal to a fellow anthropologists criticism of his witness report and sworn testimony.

One hundred and forty-two participants from seven Arctic nations described the current status of water, sanitation and hygiene services (WASH), including access to services, notification requirements for water-related infectious diseases, and examples of environmental-change events which impacted provision of services.

Study based on 1,379 AN/AI subjects with chronic HCV infection from 1995 to 2013.

Explores the possibilities of bringing a closer association between the relationship of Asian American studies and Native studies.

Discusses the importance of incorporating relevant traditional values in contemporary governance and options for revising the Navajo government.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1999.

Author examines the use of color by the Haida and Tlingit nations; discusses the cultural significance of the colors used, and the components of and technologies for creating the pigments.

Discusses the reconstruction of a Haida myth within the history of the Northwest Coast.