Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 14, no. 2, Autumn, 1999, pp. 32-45
Description
Argues that Native American literature, whether oral or written, serves all the functions any literature can or does serve, including spiritual inspiration and political insight.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 4, Winter, 1977-1978, pp. 299-320
Description
An examination of Utah's experimental reservation-farm system which had the dual goals of confining the Ute population to a prescribed location and relieving settlers of any obligation to supply food.
Journal of Communication, vol. 27, no. 4, December 1977, pp. 140-144
Description
Reviews the results of a CBC survey conducted in 1973 on respondents who resided in Frobisher Bay, NWT (now Iqaluit, Nunavut) and Fort Chimo (now Kuujjuaq), Quebec.
History of the Family, vol. 4, no. 4, December 1999, pp. 529-555
Description
Overview of three centuries of relations with Europeans and role played by familial ties; traces continuity and persistence as well as loss and change in Ojibwa kinship relations.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 23, no. 6, November/December 1999, pp. 8-16
Description
Reports on the conference, held in Cairns which attracted over 600 delegates from across Australia. Programming was divided into three streams; Future Directions, Pathway Options and Information Sharing.
Study focused on four novels: Fools Crow by James Welch, Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, The Ancient Child by N. Scott Momaday and The Women Who Owned the Shadows by Paula Gunn Allen.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 1999.
Ethnohistory, vol. 46, no. 3, Summer, 1999, pp. 429-450
Description
Describes how imposition of Council Government in 1889 on the Mohawks of Kahnawake, Quebec created two factions and how this still has ramifications for factionalism in the community today.
Health and Social Work, vol. 24, no. 1, February 1999, pp. 27-34
Description
Provides current information on the prevalence of AIDS, discussion of techniques for preventing/responding to the epidemic in a culturally appropriate way and brief anecdotes of those affected.
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 33, no. 1, Connecting to Spirit in Indigenous Research, 2010
Description
Discusses the way in which the tobacco contributes to Indigenous research methodology and examines how Indigenous research can draw upon Indigenous ways of knowing by connecting individuals with the spiritual and physical world.
Journal of Community Health, vol. 35, no. 6, December 2010, pp. [667]-675
Description
Study demonstrates that interventions to prevent excess adiposity in infants and toddlers are both feasible and acceptable to American Indian/Alaskan native peoples.
Examines the factors behind the diminishing usage of certain Nandi anthroponyms, which act as catalogues of past and present histories, and the endangerment extinction.
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 14, no. 1, 1977, pp. 5-24
Description
Comments on the survival of the Winter Ceremonial of the Southern Kwakiutl but predicts a decline in the ritual with the passing of the elderly and mobility of the younger generation.
Clinics in Dermatology, vol. 17, no. 1, January 2, 1999, pp. 49-51
Description
Brief discussion of medicinal plants and other therapeutic interventions, characteristics and modern perspectives on traditional medicine, and current applications.
Diabetes Spectrum, vol. 23, no. 4, Fall, 2010, pp. 272-277
Description
Looks at the factors contributing to high prevalence of diabetes in Native Americans and comments on the Special Diabetes Program for Indians (SDPI) Diabetes Prevention Program.