Discusses the activities of the Rocky Mountain Quality Improvement Center (RMQIC) project which was designed to prevent removal and out-of-home placement of children who have become involved with the child welfare system due to parental substance abuse and child neglect.
Dine Clans and Climate Change: A Historical Lesson for Land Use Today
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Klara Kelley
Harris Francis
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 43, no. 1, 2019, pp. 55-82
Description
Authors describes the Diné system of clans and kinship, and suggest that rooted as it is in an ethic of universal relatedness, it might hold solutions for dealing with environmental and political instability.
Report includes the following papers:
Report of the Chief by M. W. Stirling
The Acoma Indians by Leslie A. White
Isleta, New Mexico by Elsie Clews Parsons
Introduction to Zuñi Ceremonialism by Ruth L. Bunzel
Zuñi Origin Myths by Ruth L. Bunzel
Zuñi Ritual Poetry by Ruth L. Bunzel
Zuñi Katcinas by Ruth L. Bunzel
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 2, The Seventh Generation: Spotlight on Indigenous Youth, June 2013, p. [?]
Description
Discusses Earth Guardians, the organization devoted to youth environmental activism, and their current work advocating for a statewide ban on fracking in Colorado. Highlights activist, Xiuihtezcatl Martinez.
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 2, The Seventh Generation: Spotlight on Indigenous Youth, June 2013, p. [?]
Description
Describes the annual retreat of a culturally relevant leadership program that empowers young leaders to inspire positive development in their communities.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 3, Summer, 2020, pp. [279[-301
Description
An examination of the not well documented use of tattoos by female students attending schools in the South West. Discusses why, how and what the tattoos represented for the Indigenous students.
Archaeology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Simon Fraser University, 2015.
Includes four cases studies: Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Royal British Columbia Museum, and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 4, A Special Symposium Issue on Navajo Mortuary Practices and Beliefs, 1978, pp. 329-346
Description
An investigation into Navajo burial sites and cultural practices. However, due to a lack of data for comparison the author also notes the need for more archeological work in collaboration with the Navajo Nation.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring, 2007, pp. 91-99
Description
Examines the politics and controversy that surround Professor Ward Churchill's dismissal from the University of Colorado in 2006 and questions if the dismissal was governmentally motivated.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 31, no. 4, 2007, pp. 25-50
Description
Background history about the creation of the Navajo Community College (NCC). The colleges creation represented to people the establishment of a cross-cultural brokerage intended to overcome assimilationist tendencies.
Report includes the following papers:
Report of the Director by J. W. Powell
The Zuñi Indians: Their Mythology, Esoteric Fraternities, and Ceremonies by Matilda Coxe Stevenson
Author comments on attending 3 learning experiences in North America and the information he gained from each one.
"A Winston Churchill Memorial Trust funded learning experience to Canada and the United States, June 2015".
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, 1979, pp. 1-22
Description
Study conducted with 93 residents of Seattle, Washington looked at levels of economic, social and psychological adjustment, and correlations between those variables and length of residence and strength of cultural identity.