Alaska

Overview of various interpretations of the Kwakiutl ceremony and comparison to practices of Alaskan groups.

Analysis of post contact diseases and the effect on the Kutchin population.

Explores epidemiology and trends from 1998-2006. Recommends increasing prevention and education efforts by focusing on high risk regions and age groups.

Uses data linkage information between death certificates and AI/AN patient registration records to create life tables.

Study uses data from 165 295 respondents from the 2016 Behavioural Risk Factor Surveillance System to assess how sociodemographic factors affect healthy ageing in Alaskan older adults. Findings suggest some significant differences between Alaska the continental U.S. exist and that programs designed to reduce disparities and promote healthy behaviours should be tailored to fit the target population.

Five leading causes of death were: poisoning, motor vehicle-traffic crashes, drowning, natural environment and transport-other (land). Analysis found that one third of deaths occurred when an individual had travelled away from his or her community to more urban areas.

Describes pilot test and focuses on activities at the 2016 Alaska Native Health Research Forum, including process of tailoring products for the community audience, audience response to delivered presentation, and feedback about future dissemination.

Study aimed to improve cultural sensitivity in order to decrease the psychological stress resulting from rapid changes in culture and lifestyle patterns.

Focuses on disseminating research findings to communities in a manner that is culturally appropriate and useful, and also looks at maintaining a good relationship between the Alaska communities and the Center for Alaska Native Heath Research.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2002.

Explores to what limited extent Russian colonizers supplied Alaskan Natives with alcohol.

Study results suggest the Y chromosome population structure of Native North America was significantly altered by European admixture which has resulted in a decreasing gradient of haplogroup R from the northeast to the southwest of North America.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002.

Overview of initiatives and work of the department.

Book review of: Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters & Social Imagination by Julie Cruikshank.

Author describes the hiring process and their first year as a Professor in the English department of University of Alaska Anchorage; offers discussion of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) hiring practices and of the process of learning “how universities work.”

Discusses several components of cross-cultural teachers: identification and criteria of effective teachers and the important knowledge to have.

Looks at changes in domestic composition, functions, networks, and cultural ideologies.

Looks at the X-CED (Cross-Cultural Education Development Program) and the experiences of faculty over the past 25 years.

Summary of the prominent scholar's contributions to the field.

Looks at the intuitive belief that resource development results in wealth and well-being for region when in fact it often leads to a decrease and other problems (resource curse).

Examines how alcohol has adversely affected many Alaskan communities.

Centre for Indian Education at Arizona State University compares two studies examining the dropout rate among students.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Montana, 2011.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2011.

Book review of: Dynamic Traditions.

Discusses songs recorded by phonograph with the earliest being the Aivilingmiut and Qaernermiut in Canada and Alaska.

Reports on the Early Arctic Small Tool tradition site and the relationships between the various techno-complexes that make up the Early Arctic Small Tool tradition.

Discusses a site which did not have any diagnostic artifacts so radiocarbon dates tentatively assigned it to the Nenana complex.

Results of excavations at Trapper Creek Overlook and Susitna River Overlook.

Book review of: The Earth is Faster Now edited by Igor Krupnik and Dyanna Jolly.

Argues for culturally appropriate prevention and detection programs and understanding of the power relationships in which policies and recommendations are made.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 1972

Looks at visitor travel behavior data, visitor use estimation, and economic impact modeling.

Compares the economic well being of Alaskan Native American women to that of other women in the state and nation.

Provides economic value of hunting and fishing by doing cost breakdown associated with obtaining traditional foods, cost comparison of traditional foods to imported foods, and diet and lifestyle.

Describes how varying types of wood were used to enhance the lifestyle of the residents.

Looks at the diagnostic descriptions for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS), outlines the needs of a person with FAS across a life span, discusses how these needs are met in rural Alaska, and describes what Alaska and other remote communities still need to help people with FAS.

Introduces a special issue of the American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research which includes a manuscript by Dr. Foulks followed by contributions by leading scholars in the mental health field.

Introduction to journal issue featuring articles on major oil and gas developmental projects in the arctic and how the lives and lands of the Indigenous people are affected. To access this article, scroll down to page 4.

Introduction to educational challenges and successes in relation to Indigenous knowledges and education.

Editorial introduction to this issue on decolonizing systems of teaching and learning, educational spaces and the enactment of culture, and pedagogies of wholeness.

Overview of issue articles highlighting traditional support and innovative projects for healthier lifestyles, the state of HIV in communities, information on current rates of HIV, substance use, STIs and other risk factors.

Using qualitative interviews, study examines students feelings at the end of high school and their motivation to pursue postsecondary education.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 1984.