American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 16, no. 1, 2009, pp. 25-38
Description
Relates that nightmares occur in 97% of the Northern Plains Aboriginal veterans and argues that they suffer other aspects of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, vol. 22, no. 2, March/April 2007, pp. 105-112
Description
Describes prevalence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and associated neuropsychiatric problems among two communities, one in the Southwest U.S., and one in the U.S. Northern Plains.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 20, no. 4, Tribal College Leadership and Vision, Summer, 2009
Description
Discusses the launch of Diabetes Education in Tribal Schools (DETS), a curriculum designed for K-12, with the purpose being to help American Indian youth learn how to prevent diabetes and to inspire students to pursue a career in the field of health.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 19, no. 2, Our Story, Our Way, Winter, 2007
Description
States that in Montana teachers are obligated to teach American Indigenous history and so in response to a need the Stone Child College has created the Rocky Boy Tribal History Project which will allow the people of the past to tell their own story.
Discusses how federal Indian law has developed in the United States from the arrival of Columbus through to the self-determination era of today, and looks at the future of the Indian tribes.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 31, no. 2, 2007, pp. 103-111
Description
Results of a research study, with some additional analysis, that examined the importance of tribal teachers in the development of adolescent Native American's tribal identity.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 1, Winter, 2007, pp. 87-109
Description
Research report draws on field notes and case studies to assess the capacity of Tribal governance bodies to manage watersheds using a combination of Western and Indigenous scientific practices, and to analyze tribal management in context of collaborative watershed management groups.
Discusses the performances/installations Artifact Piece, Renewal Ceremony and Chapel for Pablo Tac which challenge mainstream society's stereotype of an "authentic" Indian frozen in the past.
Excerpt from thesis.
Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, vol. 9, no. 3, [Special Issue: Indigenous Science Education From Place: Best Practices on Turtle Island], 2009, pp. 141-153
Description
Outlines concepts and approaches for teaching Integrative Science and discusses some of the challenges.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 1, Winter, 2007, pp. 129-164
Description
Author explores the roles and meanings that have been ascribed to the Friendship Belt and the Two Row Wampum belts historically and what impact they have on contemporary Haudenosaunee understandings of nationhood and sovereignty.
United Nations Adopts the Declaration On The Rights Of Indigenous Peoples
Articles » General
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 1, Reparations for Indigenous Peoples, Fall, 2007
Description
Discussion of the UN (United Nations) adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples despite the no votes from Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States.
Film depicts the family’s progress from a proud Chiricahua Apache family of storytellers in Oklahoma to a multi-talented artistic family in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Duration: 32:17.
Pediatric Clinics of North America, vol. 56, no. 6, Health Issues in Indigenous Children: An Evidence Based Approach For the General Pediatrician, December 2009, pp. 1285-1302
Description
Looks at high quality data from Canada, United States, New Zealand and Australia concluding that intervention strategies are lacking for indigenous children.
Journal of Mathematics and Science, vol. 11, Spring, 2009, pp. 163-192
Description
Looks at how much time the partnership teachers had to teach science, how the time was used and influences on teachers' decisions for allocating their time.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 2, Spring, 2007, pp. 256-282
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Article examines the Indian Residential Schools in the United States during the decades surrounding the turn of the twentieth century; links the conditions in the schools to the failure of American Indian policy in the States.
Survivors of the Thomas Indian School in New York state and the Mohawk Institute (The Mush Hole) of southern Ontario relate their experiences.
Duration: 29:50.
Collection of commentaries based on excerpts from works such as Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, What Does Justice Look Like, Indians 'R' Us: Culture and Genocide, The Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology and Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide.
Pediatric Clinics of North America, vol. 56, no. 6, Health Issues in Indigenous Children: An Evidence Based Approach For the General Pediatrician, December 2009, pp. 1263-1283
Description
Reviews literature, government reports and immunization guidelines from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, an the United States.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 48, no. 1, 2009, pp. 1-18
Description
Looks at a language revitalization program in Kenai, Alaska which partners the community with the university and reports the challenges and compromises that accompany this partnership.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 19, no. 2, Our Story, Our Way, Winter, 2007
Description
Discussion of the tapes and films collected by Tony Wise and donated to the Lac Courte Oreilles; sparked the "Audio Visual Production Project" at the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College to digitize and edit the material.