From Ambivalence to Revitalization: Negotiating Cardiovascular Health Behaviours Related to Environmental and Historical Trauma in a Northwest American Indian Community
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ramona Beltrán
Katie Schultz
Angela R. Fernandez
Karina L. Walters
Bonnie Duran … [et al.]
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 25, no. 2, 2018, pp. 103-128
Description
Uses narrative analysis to explore attitudes toward protective cardiovascular health behaviours. Findings highlight contributing factors such as historical trauma, discrimination and forced urbanization. The authors suggest that health promotion and interventions should contextualize historic traumas and integrate Indigenous knowledge and cultural practices.
Western Journal of Medicine, vol. 171, no. 1, July 1999, p. 10
Description
Indian Health Service patient registration database indicates Native American youth had a higher rate of injury than non-Native youth, especially from motor vehicles accidents and assaults.
BC Studies, no. 124, Politics and Planning, Winter, 1999/2000, pp. 93-98
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Book review of:
Indians, Fire, and the Land in the Pacific Northwest edited by Robert Boyd.
An Anchored Radiance by Jay Miller.
Beyond the Reservation: Indians, Settlers, and the Law in Washington Territory, 1853-1889 by Brad Asher.
Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities around Puget Sound by Alexandra Harmon.
Pardon Me If When I Talk Want to Tell the Story of My Life It's the Land I Talk About by Pablo Neruda.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 3, Special Issue on Disease, Health, and Survival Among Native Americans, 1999, pp. 77-96
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Investigates how confinement on reservations lead to changes in subsistence, child care and housing that contributed to infant deaths from pneumonia, gastrointestinal disorders, tuberculosis, heart disease, and syphilis.
Studies in American Indian Literature, vol. 29, no. 4, Wisom of the Elders, Summer, April 24, 2018, p. [?]
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Article discusses the value of having Knowledge Keepers and Elders teaching at a post-secondary level, and the important role that cultural and language revitalization play in self-determination.
Australian Indigenous Law Reporter, vol. 4, no. 2, 1999, p. 16
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Discusses how Indigenous people in Washington State have established a new ethos in environmental management of collaborating with industry, government and environmental groups to solve their concerns.
Brief paper reports on results of survey of 148 women and analysis of health outcomes and associations such as suicide attempts or substance misuse among victims of rape and/or coercion.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 4, 1999, pp. 159-173
Description
Examines the US Federal Court Case to determine the Aboriginal treaty rights, in Washington State, to take Shellfish (in the law case shellfish were termed all marine life other than fin fish).