Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 4, Winter, 2005, pp. 1-26
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Describes how Native American authors Paula Gunn Allen, Sherman Alexie, Elizabeth Woody, Teresa lyall-Santos, James Luna, Marie Annharte Baker, and Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie create oppositional models, which challenge current paradigms and understandings of Native American identity.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.
Anthropology & Education Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 1, Indigenous Epistemologies and Education: Self-Determination, Anthropology and Human Rights, March 2005, pp. 96-103
Description
Uses the example of a program at Michigan State University to explore issues in incorporating heritage languages into the curriculum of post-secondary institutions.
International Journal of Indigenous Health, vol. 12, no. 2, 2017, pp. 64-83
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Comments on the discrimination and poorer health status of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and two-spirit Native American and Alaska Natives compared to mainstream Americans.
Talking Together to Improve Health = Gi-noondidaa ji mina-maajiishkag noojimoowin
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Annie Berthiaume
Renée Chevrier-Lamoureux
Sheila Cote-Meek
Ryan Ferguson
Ghislaine Goudreau ... [et al.]
Description
Looked at both grey and peer-reviewed literature about research conducted in North America and Australia. Summarizes search results under four themes: respect, trust, self-determination, and commitment.
Pediatrics, vol. 115, no. 2, February 2, 2005, pp. 127-134
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Analysis of multi chemical exposure among adolescent girls suggests that the attainment of the first menstrual period may be sensitive to relatively low levels of lead and Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) congeners.
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 24, no. 3, 2017, pp. 39-62
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American Indians and Alaska Natives were compared to general population on demographic variables, alcohol problems, and religious affiliations and practices. Found that those who engaged in Native-specific spiritual practices had lower alcohol use.
NEA/NIEA Moving from Research to Practice: A Summit on Indian Students
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Octaviana V. Trujillo
Denise A. Alston
Description
Focuses on one of eight undeserved identified groups, using information from proceedings of national summits, to discuss problems experienced in public schools and strategies for change in policy and practices to close the gaps in academic achievement.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 1, Spring, 2005, pp. 16-41
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Focuses on the work of contemporary Cherokee authors Robert Conley, Glenn Twist, Wilma Mankiller, and Diane Glancy, who attempt to represent the horrors of their ancestors' forced removal from the state of Georgia to present day Oklahoma.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 16.
American Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Graze, 2017.
Focuses on The Bingo Palace by Louise Erdrich, The Rez Sisters by Thomson Highway, and Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie.
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 24, no. 1, 2017, pp. 61-106
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Study found that agencies provided a substantially broader range of services, including culturally specific programs, "mainstream" treatments, and ancillary services such as care for clients children.
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 24, no. 1, 2017, pp. 107-126
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Found that one agency was within national norms and the other's expenditures were less than expected. Proves that services can be provided within budgets found at mainstream facilities.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 3, Indigenous Food Sovereignty, 2017, pp. 127-132
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Author of Eating the Landscape discusses how resilience theory can explain the relationship between traditional knowledge and adaptive change to ecological circumstances.
American Indian and Alaska Native Health Research, vol. 24, no. 3, 2017, pp. 63-87
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Describes how a sample of adolescents interpreted and acted upon disclosures of depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation on Facebook or Twitter and what resources they felt were needed.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 3, Fall, 2005, pp. 85-114
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Describes the Pawnee/Otoe-Missouria writer's 1988 novel challenging academic agendas and ethics concerning display and ownership of human remains.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 85.
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 95, no. 11, November 2005, pp. 1982-1988
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Examines culturally appropriate interventions to increase use of restraints such as infant, child and booster seats, as car crashes are the leading cause of death of children in the United States.
Early American Literature , vol. 40, no. 2, 2005, pp. 375-385
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Book reviews of seven books:
American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of
African-American and Native American Literatures by Joanne Brooks.
Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians in Colonial America by Kristina Bross.
The Eliot Tracts: With Letters from John Eliot to Thomas Thorowgood and Richard Baxter Edited by Michael Clark.
Les Sauvages Americains: Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature by Gordon Sayre.
The Poor Indians: British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility by Laura M.
Western Social Science Association Meeting, San Francisco, April 12-15, 2017
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Stephen M. Sachs
Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 28, no. 2, Fall 2017, p. [?]
Description
Provides suggestions for repairing fractured communities: reinstating traditional inclusiveness, help to heal tribal member from historical trauma and destructive behaviors, renew traditional knowledge, support tribal development and inclusive communication.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 3, 2005, pp. 125-178
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Book review of:
Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations by Charles Wilkinson.
Chinnubbie and the Owl: Muscogee (Creek) Stories, Orations and Traditions by Alexander Posey.
Choctaw Women in a Chaotic World: The Clash of Cultures in the Colonial Southeast by Michelene E. Pesantubbee.
A Colonial Complex: South Carolina’s Frontiers in the Era of the Yamasee War 1680–1730 by Steven J.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 2, 2005, pp. 119-172
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Book reviews of:
The American Indian Integration of Baseball by Jeffrey Powers-Beck.
The Apache Indians: In Search of the Missing Tribe by Helge Ingstad.
Assimilation’s Agent: My Life as a Superintendent in the Indian Boarding School System by Edwin L. Chalcraft.
Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions edited by Marie Mauzé, Michael E. Harkin, and Sergei Kan.
Every Day Is a Good Day by Wilma Mankiller.
Friends and Enemies in Penn’s Woods: Indians, Colonists, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania edited by William A.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 1, 2005, pp. 97-147
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Book reviews of:
Alaska Native Political Leadership and Higher Education: One University, Two Universes by Michael L. Jennings.
Alaska’s Daughter: An Eskimo Memoir of the Early Twentieth Century by Elizabeth Bernhardt Pinson.
Choctaw Tales collected and annotated by Tom Mould.
De Religione: Telling the Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Story in Huron to the Iroquois edited and translated by John L. Steckley.
Evil Corn by Adrian C. Louis.
Have You Thought of Leonard Peltier Lately? by Harvey Arden.
Indians in Unexpected Places by Philip J.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 4, Winter, 2005, pp. 144-152
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Argues that while Elvira Pulitano's Toward a Native American Critical Theory presents a thoughtful analysis of Native American literature, her presentation is regressive and actively marginalizes and displaces tribal voices.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 144.
Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism, vol. 34, no. 4, February 2005, pp. 662-667
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Contends that understanding patterns and burden of disease in AI/AN populations may contribute to the development of preventative strategies and understanding the etiology.
Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 51, no. 3, Autumn, 2017, pp. 697-724
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Author explores the response from French-Canadian peoples living in the United States in the mid-1870s to the execution of Louis Riel; argues that the reaction can help to understand religious and ethnic transnationalism, and resistance to social and political forces in the Canada and the U.S. in the late nineteenth century.
Arizonia Journal of International and Comparative Law, vol. 22, no. 53, 2005, pp. 53-64
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Discussion on the protection and respect of the rights of Indigenous peoples for the Inter-Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Discusses a brief submitted to the Supreme Court in 1997 which distorts the language from the court's 1886 United States v. Kagama decision, and disregards tribal values and traditions.
Reprint from Indian Country Today.
Anthropology & Education Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 1, Indigenous Epistemologies and Education: Self-Determination, Anthropology, and Human Rights, March 2005, pp. 73-87
Description
Examines the concept of self determination used in the Ramah Navajo community and gives a Navajo perspective on self-determination and education.
Journal of Cultural Diversity, vol. 12, no. 2, Summer, 2005, pp. 62-68
Description
Study conducted through interviews indicated that the role of cultural conservator was carried out through storytelling, support of children taking part in cultural activities and transference of traditions and values.