Report has information about demographics, reservations and land maps, community issues, educational issues, schools types, Indian Education Legislation and Native organizations.
Pimatisiwin, vol. 8, no. 1, Summer, 2010, pp. 1-18
Description
Looks at the Caregiver Ratio Index (CRI), the number of potential caregivers divided by the number of potential frail elders, and its usefulness as a demographic tool.
Focuses on detective narratives. Discusses Street Wolf by Mark Wayne Harris and Dennis Francis, Skinwalker by Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir, and Scalped by Jason Aaron and R. M. Guéra.
Social Justice, vol. 31, no. 4, Native Women and State Violence, 2004, pp. 54-62
Description
Authors speaks about experiences with family members and drug abuse and looks at banishment as a form of punishment in the Lummi Nation tribal community.
Catholic Historical Review, vol. 90, no. 2, April 2004, pp. 260-272
Description
Looks at the significance of Kateri Tekakwitha, and the nostalgic, fictionalized autobiography The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha written by Ellen Walworth.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 16, no. 2, Tribal College Research, Winter, 2004
Description
Discussion of an allotment of $7.2 million US annually for the next 20 years to be given to Diné College, the Crownpoint Institute of Technology, and the Office of Navajo Nation Scholarship and Financial Assistance.
Stealing/Steeling the Spirit: American Indian Identities ; and Smoke Screens/Smoke Signals: Looking Through Worlds: Proceedings of the Third and Fourth Native American Symposiums
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Jutta Vogelbacher
Description
Discusses how a curriculum framed from the Aboriginal perspective benefits Native American students.
Ten-year anthroplogical study tracked students from 1980-1981 to 1988-1989. Author argues problems of retention and success in school are part of conflict in the larger community.
Harvard Educational Review, vol. 65, no. 3, Fall , 1995, pp. 403-444
Description
Results of a ethnographic study on the lives of Navajo youth, describing the racial and cultural struggle between Native American Indians and non-Native Americans.
Contends that nature of the relationship between Native American students and their teacher, along with cultural context, can be important factors in academic success and retention .
Examines the conceptual challenges of a national cinema; describes the political and creative utility in the Native Southwest; looks at the work of Larry Blackhorse Lowe, Nanobah Becker, and Bennie Klain; and discusses the challenges that might undermine the prospects for a Navajo national cinema.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 16, no. 2, Tribal College Research, Winter, 2004
Description
Book review of: Night is Gone, Day is Still Coming: Stories and Poems by American Indian Teens and Young Adults edited by Annette Piña Ochoa, Betsy Franco and Traci L. Gourdine.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 63, no. 4, Special Issue: eHealth, 2004, pp. 448-449
Description
Brief article about National Institute of Health of the United States and the Canadian Institute of Health Research signing a joint agreement to cooperate on issues related to health research.
American Indian Art Magazine, vol. [29], no. [4], Autumn, 2004, pp. 86-105
Description
Discusses George Heye's collection of Northwest Coast metal objects which included masks, rattles, feast spoons, and daggers created for sale as "curios".
Undergraduate Honors Theses (Utah State University) ; paper 70
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Brooke D. McNaughton
Description
Evaluates two novels which address identity issues: Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko and Wolfsong by Louis Owens.
American Studies Honors Thesis--Utah State University, 2010.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 16, no. 2, Summer, 2004, pp. 65-73
Description
Discusses elements of Nora Dauenhauer's Life Woven With Song which uses a variety of genres including memoir, essay, fiction, poetry, and autobiographical to reflect the relationship between the Tlingit people and their landscape.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 65.
State Center for Health Statistics And Office Minority Health and Health Disparities
Description
Facts about mortality, chronic diseases, HIV and sexually transmitted diseases, access to health and health of children from infant to adolescent in the American Indian population.
Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Peter H. Stephenson
Steven Acheson
Description
Focuses on the peoples of the northern area of the Northwest Coast including Alaska, Washington, Oregon and British Columbia.
Chapter from Volume 2 of Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World's Cultures edited by Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 3, Summer, 1995, pp. 389-405
Description
Author examines 19th century liturgical texts adapted and translated to the Cherokee language. Semantic analysis reveals several representational and conceptual problems that had to be overcome in order to create effective translations of the texts.