Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 17, no. 4, July/August 1993, pp. 23-32
Description
Looks at the skills needed to have effective communication between health workers and patients: attitude, behaviour, verbal communication, information delivery, and concluding the conversation.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 32, no. 4, 2008, pp. 145-200
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Book reviews of 20 books:
Being and Place Among the Tlingit by Thomas F. Thornton.
The Cultivation of Resentment: Treaty Rights and the New Right by Jeffery R. Dudas.
Diabetes Among the Pima: Stories of Survival by Carolyn Smith-Morris.
Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music by Lynn Whidden.
First Families: A Photographic History of California Indians by L. Frank and Kim Hogeland.
Households and Hegemony: Early Creek Prestige Goods, Symbolic Capital and Social Power by Cameron B.
Discusses David Ahenakew, how the FSIN now needs to move forward to address social, economic and political issues, and again build a good working relationship with the federal and provincial governments.
Author reflects on the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) and argues that there is a need to stregthen the First Nations with eyes focused on the long term future.
Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, vol. 41, no. 1, May 2008, pp. 31-42
Description
Examines to what extent Native writers, critics, and researchers, as well as non-Native people who work in Native Studies, are led or constrained by beliefs about what is traditional, spiritually appropriate, politically effective and beneficial to Native communities.
South Dakota Law Review, vol. 38, no. 1, 1993, pp. [14]-21
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Argues that negative stereotypes can become self-fulfilling prophecies. In this case, a marketing campaign linked Native American heritage to alcohol use.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 3, Summer, 2008, pp. 324-351
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Author believes televison shows dehumanize Native Americans and takes a critical look at how audiences' percieve representations, what frame of reference the audience uses to evaluate what they view, and argues that there is a need to view representations without accepting the status quo provided in encoded form.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 4, Winter, 2008, pp. ix-xxxii
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Author discusses the way that the ethnographic approach to captivity narratives such as Memoirs of Odd Adventures, Strange Deliverances, etc., in the Captivity of John Gyles and A Narrative of the Captivity of Mrs. Johnson promotes several assumptions about Indigenous culture and portrays them as foreign.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 2, Spring, 2008, pp. 121-140
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Author argues that the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States doctrines contain no legal basis for regulating or eliminating the use of Indigenous symbols, images, or stereotypes as mascots or logos in sports and/or business.
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 20, no. 1, Native Voices, Modern Media, Fall, 2008, pp. 18-19
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Discusses the associate degree in Media Communications, including a description of the curriculum, available from Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 31, no. 2, 2008, pp. 4-14, 174
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Looks at popular interpretations of the Huron childhood experience and finds that the historical representations regarding disrespect and freedom, associated with children, are simply not true.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 3, Summer, 1993, pp. 343-349
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Author considers different historical perspectives on the civilized vs. savage narratives that are pervasive in the frontier mythology of the United States complicating both the portrayal of Indigenous peoples and the colonial state’s relationship with them.
It's a Sunny Day at Oglala Lakota College TV Studio
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Juan A. Avila Hernandez
Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, vol. 20, no. 1, Native Voices, Modern Media, Fall, 2008, p. 21
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Comments on a student production, Wojapi, a show inspired by Sesame Street, which features Lakota words and promotes Lakota language, culture and values.
Journal of Community Health, vol. 33, no. 4, August 2008, pp. 192-198
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A study of awareness of tuberculosis (TB) causes, risk factors and symptoms; and their experiences with health services among a group of Aboriginal peoples living in Montreal.
Montana: The Magazine of Western History, vol. 58, no. 3, Autumn, 2008, pp. 3-22, 92-94
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Examines how Native communities maintained their social and cultural identities amidst the attempt of middle class whites to preserve their own version of Indian culture.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 17, no. 3, Summer, 1993, pp. 359-369
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Article investigates the media representation and the court’s treatment of Indigenous—specifically Apache--people, accused of murder in Arizona during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Library Trends, vol. 56, no. 3, Winter, 2008, pp. 618-634
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Describes a cooperative initiative to bring editors, publishers and academic historians together, with the goal of writing a reference guide, co-operating in regards to research and share information.