Disparities in Chronic Disease Risk Factors and Health Status Between American Indian / Alaska Native and White Elders: Findings From a Telephone Survey, 2001 and 2002
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Clark H. Denny
Deborah Holtzman
Turner R. Goins
Janet B. Croft
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 95, no. 5, May 2005, pp. 825-827
Description
Comparison of chronic disease risk factors using 2001 and 2002 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data.
Examines the structural factors behind disproportionality in the system and reviews approaches that go beyond traditional limits of social welfare systems.
Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, vol. 25, no. 4, December 2010, pp. 303-316
Description
Examines the belief systems about diabetes in American Indian elders with two practice models, one an Indigenous model, valuing traditional American Indian culture, the other a mainstream model, aligned with western biomedicine.
Journal of the Southwest, vol. 47, no. 1, Oral History Remembered: Native Americans, Doris Duke, and the Young Anthropologists, Spring, 2005, pp. 11-28
Description
Provides overview of the program and goals which included documentation of the history of Native Americans in their own voices and from their own perspectives.
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 16, no. 1-2, 2010, pp. 69-92
Description
Looks at how Two-Spirit critiques, critiques that centralize Native peoples, nations, identities, land bases, and survival tactics, challenge and strengthen work in queer studies.
Author speaks about the six determinants of form, Native societies and traditional dwellings. Uses examples from book produced in collaboration with architect Robert Easton.
Duration: 52:14.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 2, Spring, 1992, pp. 141-156
Description
Author analyzes baptismal, burial, and census records from five missions in the San Francisco Bay area to explore the realities of demographic collapse among Indigenous communities during colonization.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 2, Special Issue: Honoring A. Lavonne Brown, Summer, 2005, pp. 10-17
Description
Transcription of a letter penned by Alexander Eastman, Sioux physician, author and activist, describing his family history and his great sadness at the loss of his mother.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 10.
Landscape designer for the National Museum of the American Indian, speaks about her philosophy during the concept, design and construction stages of building the museum.
Duration: 54:19.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 29, no. 1, 2005, pp. 79-96
Description
Results of three energy-efficiency case studies conducted with three different Native American groups in the western United States. The purpose of the case studies was to demonstrate that energy efficiency is economically feasible, has the potential to reduce air pollution, and can help communities meet other goals.
Northern Review, no. 25/26, Governance in the Provincial Norths, Summer, 2005, pp. 161-171
Description
Looks at the diagnostic descriptions for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS), outlines the needs of a person with FAS across a life span, discusses how these needs are met in rural Alaska, and describes what Alaska and other remote communities still need to help people with FAS.
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, vol. 37, no. 3, Faces of HIV/AIDS and Substance Abuse in Native American Communities, September 2005, pp. 241-246
Description
Overview of issue articles highlighting traditional support and innovative projects for healthier lifestyles, the state of HIV in communities, information on current rates of HIV, substance use, STIs and other risk factors.
Anthropology & Education Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 1, Indigenous Epistmologies and Education: Self Determination, Anthropology, and Human Rights, March 2005, pp. 1-7
Annual National Association of Native American Studies Conference; 2005
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Alberta Yeboah
Description
Brief discussion of traditional practices, era of government-imposed assimilation through residential schools, and current situation with respect to tribal control of education.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 32, no. 1, October 1992, pp. [12-20]
Description
Analysis of the Cheyenne Transporter's (1880-86) content reveals belief that discipline and certain subjects civilize, Americanize, and bring people into the mainstream. Appreciation of, or consideration for, the culture of Cheyenne and Arapaho is absent.
Wisconsin Medical Journal, vol. 104, no. 5, July 2005, pp. 44-47
Description
Study of thirty-eight school children found that program, which improved level of physical activity and diet, produced reduced risk for type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, and hyperinsulinemia.
American Antiquity, vol. 70, no. 2, April 2005, pp. 211-240
Description
Describes how 500 year old smoking pipes left archaeological evidence that links the St. Lawrence Iroquoians of Jefferson County with the Mohawks, Oneidas, and Onondagas of Upstate New York.