Describes the psychosocial and behavioral characteristics of 30 consecutive adult suicides from four communities derived from interviews with a family member.
AlterNative, vol. 5, no. 2, Ke Ala Hou: Breaking Trail in Hawaiian Research and Development, 2009, pp. 138-155
Description
Discusses the origin and overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii, and examines how the Ali'i (native Hawaiian chiefs) used their knowledge of law to advance their own existing Indigenous structure.
Compares concentration of place names on King Island to those reported for other communities and poses factors that may have contributed to this difference.
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 54, no. 2, 2017, pp. 111-135
Description
Author compares Amakomanak microblade assemblage to that of others from sites in Alaska; argues that the raw materials available in a given area are responsible for the different microblade designs described.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 56, no. 3, Fall, 2017, pp. 34-58
Description
Discusses the practices that influence Indigenous graduate students in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) educational fields.
Journal of College Student Development, vol. 50, no. 2, March/April 2009, pp. 157-176
Description
Study suggests that bicultural efficacy and cultural orientation should be examined when considering educational orientation of American Indian college students.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 2, Fall, 2017, pp. 30-45
Description
Exploratory article which examines the ways lessons and information on the history and contemporary state of Indian Education are integrated into American Indian/Native American Studies programs and journals.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 2, Fall, 2017, pp. 106-114
Description
Ortiz’s address to the AISA calls on Indigenous people to recognize the damage done to them by colonization and to find in that recognition the strength and will to participate in contemporary resistance to neocolonial projects rooted in consumer capitalist and extractive resource regimes.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 32, no. 2, Fall, 2017, pp. 91-105
Description
This presentation text examines different sites and incidents of neocolonial violence and Aboriginal activism as defiance in response; asserts the basis of Native Studies is “indigenousness and sovereignty” and examines the implications of these concepts for activism and resistance movements.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 1, Winter, 2009, pp. 1-17
Description
Looks at the history of American Indian Studies programs in the United States; information about the activism among Indian communities; the activism efforts of American Indian college students; the presence of American Indian teachers in United States colleges and universities; and other factors contributing to the growing field of American Indian Studies.
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, vol. 63, no. 5, May 2009, pp. 414-416
Description
Study which compared prevalence of depression in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women in two out-reach programmes found Aboriginal women experienced more self-harm thoughts; also found link between exercise and reduction of depression.
American Anthropologist, vol. 119, no. 3, September 2017, pp. 435-447
Description
Looks at authors and articles appearing in the periodical published by the Office of Indian Affairs during the 1930s. It served as a forum for intradisciplinary debates, particularly in the emerging subfield of applied anthropology.