American Journal of Public Health, vol. 104, no. S3, Supplement 3, 2014, pp. S481-S489
Description
Looks at risk behaviors such as tobacco use, diet and physical inactivity by surveying communities and using the Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System conducted by state health departments and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 2, Fall, June 2019, pp. 101-110
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Article summarizes data collected in a Māori evaluation of a Cardiovascular Disease Medications Health Literacy Intervention. Groups findings into three key themes: Whakaaro:fluidity of understanding, building patient knowledge and relationships; Tūrangatira: presence; Whanaungatanga: building relationships.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 6, no. 3, September 1982, pp. 4-6
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Describes the use of the Weight-for-Height Wallchart which assists health workers with an easy way how to measure children's progress using visual cues.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 6, no. 3, September 1982, pp. 7-9
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New health worker team in northern Queensland, Australia discusses learning about European medicine while still employing, 'bush medicine' treatments using locally sourced ingredients.
American Review of Canadian Studies, vol. 49, no. 4, 2019, pp. 511-529
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Examines the ways that various minorities use hockey to create a sense of nationalism and how it differs for majority of Canadians. Francophone and Indigenous communities are discussed.
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 4, Indigenous Notions of Cultural Heritage, December 2019, pp. 321-329
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Article examines the process and effects of the heritagization of Tamu (Nepal) music; considers some of the dynamics of the cross-cultural relationships between different Indigenous and colonizing groups within Nepal and the push to safeguard intangible culture.
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 106, April 2014, p. 128–136
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Discusses the theory of historical trauma and the connection to contemporary health disparities. Also examines a narrative model to address problems of existing historical theories.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 34, no. 3, Summer, 2014, pp. 288-289
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Book review of: The History of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, 1600-2012 by David Miller, Dennis Smith, Joseph McGeshik, James Shanley and Caleb Shields.
Social Science & Medicine, vol. 105, March 2014, p. 59–66
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Examines the experiences of drug user patients in hospital settings and the social, structural, and environmental factors that contribute to self discharge.
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.
Body Image, vol. 11, no. 3, June 2014, pp. 318-327
Description
Women identified the following themes: accepting everything about your body; who you are and how you show it; connection to culture; being healthy; and being thankful to be Indigenous.
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 1, no. 2, Fall, 2014, pp. 89-104
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Comments on the "chain of symbolic associations between the Indigenous, in particular the Choctaw, and Lennon and The Beatles that extends across much of the novel".
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 3, Summer, 2014, pp. 287-318
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Looks at the current violence caused by drug and human trafficking, challenges to addressing the problem, and review of initiatives to fix the challenges.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 3, Summer, 2014, pp. 287-318
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Looks at two American Indian Nations, that are recognized as drug conduits, and discusses possible solutions to the challenges faced by these and other Nations.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 53, no. 1, 2014, pp. 23-41
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Study looked one predominately White institution lacking Native American organizations and found that increased social interactions had a positive impact on grades, but reduced graduation rates.
AlterNative, vol. 15, no. 4, Indigenous Notions of Cultural Heritage, December 2019, pp. 309-320
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Study uses relational research methodologies to examine the way that colonial structures and environmental policies interact and work to suppress Indigenous rights and sovereignties in the Laitu Khyeng Indigenous community in Chittagong Hill Tract in Bangladesh.