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. 1461-1479
Description
Looks at practical applications and resilience strategies for clinicians working with Indigenous youth and families.
Teachers' guide developed in conjunction with exhibition mounted to dispel the misrepresentations of cultural beliefs created by Stephanie Myer's Twilight books.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 21, no. 2, K-12 Education, Winter, 2009
Description
Authors' narrative describes leaving his work with the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis to start his own company committed to aid the economic development of American Indian tribes.
Attempts to decolonize Indigenous citizenship to more relevant and timely conceptions.
Undergraduate Honors Thesis in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (B.A.)--Stanford University, 2010.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 11, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 1999, pp. [66]-78
Description
Argues that King's works, Medicine River and Green Grass, Running Water represent a process of challenging views held by the dominant culture and constructing a new identity which is not based on the premise of superiority/inferiority as in previous cross-cultural relationships.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Educational website focuses on the photographs taken by Edward S. Curtis. Contains links to thumbnail images with notes, lesson plans, slide show and kit manual.
The Birth of Tribal College Journal: Father's Curiosity Launched Paul Boyer on his Journey Into Indian Country
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Juan Avila Hernandez
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 21, no. 1, Celebrating Tribal College Journals 20th Anniversary, Fall, 2009, pp. 22-24
Description
Explains the history of the Tribal College Journal and its tie to Native American Colleges.
Lesson Plan: Blackfoot Winter Counts and their Stories
[Kaahsinnooniksi Ao'toksisawooyawa: Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit: Reconnections with Historic Blackfoot Shirts]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ramona L. Big Head
Description
Lesson plan developed in conjunction with exhibition of Blackfoot shirts loaned from the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, to the Glenbow and Galt Museums in Alberta.
Designed for Grade 2 language arts, but can be adapted to other levels.
Ao'toksisawooyawa: Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit: Reconnections with Historic Blackfoot Shirts]
Lesson Plan: Creative Writing and Drama
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Ramona L. Big Head
Description
Lesson plan developed in conjunction with exhibition of Blackfoot shirts loaned from the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, to the Glenbow and Galt Museums in Alberta.
Designed for high school students.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 3, Special Issue on Disease, Health, and Survival Among Native Americans, 1999, pp. 119-142
Description
Investigates an order, from the Office of Indian Affairs (OIA), that requested that all OIA physicians learn to perform the approved operations for the cure of trachoma, a disease of the eye(s), and how this policy may have caused even more suffering for patients.
American Literature, vol. 71, no. 1, March 1999, pp. 93-116
Description
Discusses the debate about what constitutes American Indian identity by contrasting U.S. government's standard of blood quantum with N. Scott Momaday's trope of "memory in the blood" as a sign of racial authenticity.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 3, Special Issue on Disease, Health, and Survival Among Native Americans, 1999, pp. 47-61
Description
Examination of the religious and cultural responses, of two California Native American groups, to new diseases, which were of Spanish origin, and to colonization.
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 34, no. 2, Technologies Créatives / Creative Technologies, 2010, pp. 39-59
Description
Examines the connection between body and technology and wellness. Also seeks understanding of why local residents consider traditional activities a solution to social problems such as substance abuse.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 33, no. 3, 2009, pp. 111-165
Description
Book reviews of 20 books:
The American Indian Oral History Manual: Making Many Voices Heard by Charles E. Trimble, Barbara W. Sommer and Mary Kay Quinlan.
Collaborating at the Trowel's Edge: Teaching and Learning in Indigenous Archaeology edited by Stephen W. Silliman.
Doctor to the North: Thirty Years Treating Heart Disease Among the Inuit by John H.
Book reviews of:
The Politics of Minor Concerns: American Indian Policy and Congressional Dynamics by Charles Turner.
Taking Charge: Native American Self-Determination and Federal Indian Policy, 1975-1993 by George Pierre Castile.
Mixedblood Messages: Literature, Film, Family, Place
Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border Crossing, and Loose Canons
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
David Payne
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 11, no. 2, Series 2, Summer, 1999, pp. 84-89
Description
Book reviews of:
Mixedblood Messages: Literature, Film, Family, Place by Louis Owens.
Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border Crossing, and Loose Canons by Paula Gunn Allen.
To Access Reviews, scroll to Page 84-89
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 33, no. 1, 2009, pp. 143-192
Description
Book reviews of 20 books:
American Indians and State Law: Sovereignty, Race, and Citizenship, 1790-1880 by Deborah A. Rosen.
Architectural Variability in the Southeast edited by Cameron H. Lacquement.
Art from Fort Marion: The Silberman Collection by Joyce M.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 22, no. 4, Winter, 2010, pp. [81]-85
Description
Book review of: Do You See What I Mean? Plains Indian Sign Talk and the Embodiment of Action by Brenda Farnell.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p. 81.