American Journal of Public Health, vol. 95, no. 12, December 2005, pp. 2173-2179
Description
Discussion of how the Indian Health Service (IHS) can improve health care by using information technology such as electronic health records to improve health care.
Reports on the cultural and linguistic barriers encountered by Navajo interpreters during the informed consent process and makes suggestions for adapting it to minority populations.
American Indian Language Development Institute: Thirty Year Tradition of Speaking From Our Heart
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Susan D. Penfield
Description
Comments on two courses: grant writing and language documentation.
Chapter from American Indian Language Development Institute: Thirty Year Tradition of Speaking From Our Heart edited by Candace K. Galla, Stacey Oberly, G.L. Romero, Maxine Sam, Ofelia Zepeda.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 16, no. 3, Indigenizing Education, Spring, 2005, p. 14
Description
Describes the development, at Turtle Mountain Community College, of a philosophy that teaches by integrating the tribal values of bravery, honesty, wisdom, humility, truth, love and peace into its curriculum.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 4, Fall, 2010, pp. 475-497
Description
Comments on the exchange of cultures between American Indians and Scottish-Irish settlers and the positive transformation into an intertribal community that occurred.
Revue LISA / LISA e-journal, vol. 2, no. 6, Arts and American Minorities: An Identity Iconography?, 2004, pp. 79-84
Description
Discusses past, present and future directions and the issue of educating the public about contemporary art as an expression of living and changing culture.
Whispering Wind, vol. 35, no. 3, May-June 2005, pp. 32-33
Description
Interview with author who immigrated to the United States from England in 1977. Goble has written books about Lakota, Cheyenne, Blackfoot and Pawnee tradition.
Native Authenticity: Transnational Perspectives on Native American Literary Studies
Native Traces
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Author/Creator
Deborah L. Madsen
Description
Discussion of difficulties involved in determining who can legitimately be called a "Native American" author.
Excerpt from Native Authenticity: Transnational Perspectives on Native American Literary Studies edited by Deborah L. Madsen.
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 28, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Empowerment Through Literature, Winter-Spring, 2004, pp. 151-169
Description
Article recounts the forced removal and executions of the Dakota Sioux following the “Sioux Uprising of 1862” and describes how those events are being commemorated through a memorial walk from the Lower Sioux Reservation on Minnesota to Fort Snelling in St. Paul, MN.
Post Script, vol. 29, no. 3, Indian Cinema, Summer, 2010, pp. 3-[?]
Description
Introduction to special issue celebrating Indigenous film in North America with examples of key films and filmmakers, approaches to studying and writing and interviews with filmmakers in Canada, Mexico and the United States.
International Dental Journal, vol. 60, no. 3, suppl.2, June 2010, pp. 212-215
Description
Overview revealed that inequalities exist and are on the rise in child and adult populations in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand.