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.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 137, no. 4, December 2008, pp. 412-424
Description
Study results suggest the Y chromosome population structure of Native North America was significantly altered by European admixture which has resulted in a decreasing gradient of haplogroup R from the northeast to the southwest of North America.
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.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 31, no. 1, 2008, pp. 311-317
Description
Author shares a mnemoic pictograph, symbolic of a dream, with the audience at an American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting held in Chicago in May 2007.
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.
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.
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 67, no. 4, 2008, pp. 374-383
Description
Argues for culturally appropriate prevention and detection programs and understanding of the power relationships in which policies and recommendations are made.
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.
Statistics on characteristics of students, teachers and schools, and integration of language and culture in their homes and schools.
See Part I - Performance of American Indian and Alaska Native Students at Grades 4 and 8 on NAEP 2007 Reading and Mathematics Assessments.
Effect of Special Diabetes Program for Indians Funding on System Changes in Diabetes Care and Outcomes among American Indian / Alaska Native people 1994-2004
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Meera Ramesh
Cynthia Schraer
Ann Marie Mayer
Elvin Asay
Kathryn Koller
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 67, no. 2-3, June 2008, pp. 203-212
Description
Found that the number of people with diabetes increased as the percentage of patients receiving foot, eye and dental exams decreased.