Alaska

Book review of: Nushagak by James W. Vanstone.

Looks at how Indigenous pedagogy and cultural practices, rooted in Yup'ik epistemology, can help with child awareness developmental processes.

Comments on the analysis of twenty foods indigenous to southeastern Alaska and reports the high nutritional content found in these foods.

Review of published literature to: summarize relationship between diet and cancer, summarize what is known about historical and current diet, and consider correlation between nutrition and risk of cancer.

Presents an editorial that introduces a serious problem increasing among indigenous peoples in the Arctic region.

Purpose of study was to examine extent of research, representation of populations and geographic areas, methodologies used and associated health outcomes.

Describes the author’s experience using the semi-directive interview to document traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) about beluga whales in Alaska.

Study compared secondary students from rural Inuit villages to a sample of Euroamericans from an urban environment to determine whether cultural differences influence work values.

Introduces eight articles on statistics and risk factors of suicidal behavior.

Concludes that there are elevated rates of pancreaticobiliary cancers in Alaska Natives. Possible risk factors that are modifiable are tobacco use and obesity.

Discusses the opposition, by the Arctic indigenous peoples, towards the United States government's decision to list the polar bear as a threatened species.

Looks at the history of tribal government and Native corporations and shows how each contribute to political ventures at the national and state levels.

Comments on college programming designed to support industry jobs.

Film review of Oil on Ice produced and directed by Dale Djerassi and Bo Boudart.

Looks at "the collective interpretations of disaster recovery following the Exxon Valdez oil spill as developed in the alternative Alaska Native newspaper, the Tundra Times."

An Inuk elder dressed in traditional winter clothing; Cape Barrow, Alaska.

Discusses the Early and Old Kiavak archaeological phases and the Ocean Bay tradition.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2004.

Book reviews of: Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom by Tiya Miles. Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century North-west Coast by Paige Raibmon. Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity by J. Kēhaulani Kauanui.

Article examines historical, environmental and cultural factors that relate to health disparities in Northern Canada and Alaska; discusses the One Health framework as a model with the potential to engage the world-view of Indigenous peoples and improve resilience in communities facing effects of climate change.

Author is presented with letters written to a friend 40 years previously and reflects on her younger self.

Comments on a group of women who knit with qiviut (muskox hair), a fiber which is eight times warmer than sheep's wool. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 17.

Analyzes the variations in structural details between the boats of the region.

Looks at a short-story collection and a graphic novel, both which feature semi-autobiographical twenty-something protagonists.

Study of 100 parents of AI/AN children 71 months or younger attending outpatient paediatric primary care appointments found that the odds of regular child toothbrushing were 49.10 times higher when the parent brushed their own teeth regularly.

Statistics from various sources gathered to assist tribes in developing public health programs and priorities.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002.

Study examined liver and blubber samples to determine contaminant levels and possible effects on the Bowhead population.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of New Mexico, 1973.

Looks at the reasons for displacement in Alaska and why the Bureau of Education's efforts included an emphasis on preparing the local inhabitants for a more urban society, one in which some degree of assimilation and integration would be inevitable.

Addresses a proposal that Haida adaptations were more maritime than those of the Tlingit.

Discusses the evolution of technologies used to restore and create space to preserve languages and cultures while communicating across cultural, political, and geographical boundaries.

History of trade, its rise and fall, including effects of international fur trade from the Russian and Chinese markets.

Describes how the Social Transition in the North (STN) study assessed the epidemiological, demographic and domestic changes in northern communities.

Includes two groups: Chugach Eskimos of Prince William Sound and the Kodiak Eskimos of Kodiak Island and adjacent islands. Digitized copy of typescript is part of the unpublished reference work on the Northern Arctic and subarctic regions. Project ran from 1947-1951.

Authors explore the emergence of new salmon fisheries in the Arctic by examining data collected in interviews with 41 active fishermen and Elders between 2010 and 2013. Findings show discrepancies regarding the abundance, but clear evidence of new fisheries.

Looks at traumatic injury in children 17 years of age or younger from 2001 to 2011.

Discusses issues surrounding conservation, preservation, and restoration of totem poles from the Pacific Northwest. Chapter from: Painted Wood: History and Conservation edited by Valerie Dorge and F. Carey Howlett.

Book Review of Paitarkiutenka: My Legacy to You by Frank "Miisaq" Andrew Sr.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Utah, 2002.

Excavations at the Mesa site indicate occupation between 9,730 and 11,660 years ago before climate changes encouraged southward migration.

Looks at the Anchorage based band Pamyua's.

Highlights from the evaluation of the innovative series which was broadcast live in Alaska and Canada in May 2009.

Looks at environment of school-community interactions, involvement in children's schooling, and patterns of control related to student success. Interviews were conducted with parents, teachers, administrators and influential community members in over 20 sites between 1982 and 1993.

Looks at development of past and current programs, initiatives in other jurisdictions, content of programs, parent needs, and effective program elements, and provides key recommendations.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Temple University, 2008.

Education (Speical Arrangements) Thesis (Ph.D.)--Simon Fraser University, 1981.