Anthropology & Medicine, vol. 6, no. 3, 1999, pp. 405-421
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Interviews patients, family, primary care providers and language interpreters to look at cultural interpretations of mortality, disease prognosis, and perspectives for end of life decisions.
Journal of American Indian Education , vol. 51, no. 2, 2012, pp. 24-41
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Interview findings indicated that interviewees faced challenges relating to identity development, racism, and difficult circumstances at home and at school.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 20, no. 1, January 1, 1996, pp. 7-13
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Focuses on oral traditions within families and presents a story of a Dakota family's struggles during their removal following the 1862 United States Dakota Conflict in Minnesota.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 43, no. 2, Spring, 2019, pp. 135-167
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Describes the minimum blood quantum requirement for tribal membership, the history of its implementation, and how it originated with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI); argues that blood quantum is a bureaucratic tool rather than a genuine measure of Indigeneity.
American Indian Law Review, vol. 8, no. 2, 1980, pp. 199-257
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Author contends that the destabilization of Aboriginal families is caused by social service policies, provincial family legislation and the actions of the Canadian judiciary.
Journal of Marriage and the Family, vol. 26, no. 2, May 1964, pp. 142-148
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Attempts to explain why there is a persistent 20% "illegitimate" birth rate on a reserve in eastern Quebec and suggests causal factors relate to degree of social and cultural integration.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 23, no. 2, 1999, pp. 149-207
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Book reviews of:
American Indian Activism: Alcatraz to the Longest Walk edited by Troy Johnson, Joane Nagel, and Duane Champagne.
As We Are Now: Mixblood Essays on Race and Identity edited by William S. Penn.
Cahokia: Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World edited by Timothy R. Pauketat and Thomas E.
Story about Charlie Smoke who comes from the Akwasasne Mohawk Nation by way of the Oglala Nation in South Dakota and his quest to be recognized by the Canadian government.
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 4, Special Issue: Adoption and Indigenous Citizenship Orders, December 2018, pp. 293-299
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Foreword for AlterNative’s 2018 Volume 14 Issue 4 Special Issue on Adoption and Indigenous Citizenship Orders, authored by its two Guest Editors; highlights the topics, authors and social contexts to be covered in the issue.