American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 4, Autumn, 1991, pp. 431-456
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Article presents data collected on the evaluation of biomedical research ethics in Indigenous communities. Author draws on interviews with researchers, tribal officials, and research subjects to understand the ethical issues surrounding the research process.
BMC International Health and Human Rights , vol. 7, no. 9, 2007, p. article 9
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Looks at life expectancy, educational attainment and income between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations to determine if the gap between socioeconomic and health status has improved or decreased between 1990 and 2000.
Social Work Research, vol. 31, no. 2, June 2007, pp. 95-107
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Examines the Navajo Nation, San Carlos, and Salt River reservations in Arizona and how these areas, unlike the rest of the nation, have not had a decline in welfare caseloads.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 3, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 1991, pp. 36-40
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Discusses how the author was invited to be a Scholar in Residence at a high school on the Navajo Reservation, and was also asked to include Native American literature into the curriculum, with an emphasis on Navajo (and Hopi) culture.
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The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 27, no. 2, 2007, pp. 219-246
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Response to "Individual Property Rights on Canadian Indian Reserves" by Christopher Alcantara in the Canadian Journal of Native Studies vol. 23, no. 2 (2003) at pages 391 to 424.
Comments on the changes to reservation life due to modern communications and electricity and the need to return to a simpler, less complicated life that includes traditional ways.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 3, American Indian Family History, Summer, 1991, pp. 287-309
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Author uses archival census and records and counts to examine the changing family dynamics of the Crow peoples during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 7, no. 2, Autumn, 1991, pp. 34-48
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Comments on Native American people in the United States being the poorest of the poor, where collective unemployment exceeds 65% and are what has been called the "Third World at home".