Behavioral Health Risks for American Indian/Alaska Native Youth
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kelly Serafini
Dennis M. Donovan
Dennis C. Wendt
Brandon Matsumiya
Carolyn A. McCarty
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 24, no. 2, 2017, pp. 1-17
Description
Study found that Indigenous youth suffered from more depressive symptoms, discrimination, and generalized anxiety, and were more likely to have initiated substance abuse than the rest of the cohort.
University of Saskatchewan Undergraduate Research Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, April 2017, pp. 1-8
Description
An analysis of four primary sources published by William Johnson, Superintendent of Northern Indian Affairs, British General Charles Lee, University of Pennsylvania Provost William Smith, and plantation owner and British soldier Peter Williamson.
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 1, January 2017, pp. 1-22
Description
Studies barriers to implementing the Zimbabwean language education policy in primary school grades and the perception of socio-economic benefits that come with the English language.
Protocol is comprised of six key principles: self-determination and inclusion in all stages of the research process; acting in good faith; understanding determinants of health; recognition of culture and vision and culturally-grounded research and solutions; respect for local peoples and their ways of knowing, Elders and ancestral understandings; and incorporating Two-Eyed Seeing into process.
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 37, no. 2, Winter, 1998, pp. [21-33]
Description
Discusses the process used by the American Indian Higher Education Initiative to develop methods to enable institutions to meet better meet student needs.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 1998, pp. 125-133
Description
Article introduces the second section of this is issue of AIQ and the articles contained therein. Focuses on issues of identity, cultural hybridity and marginality.
Connecting Remote Populations to Public Health: The Case for a Digital Immunization Information System in Nunavut
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lindsay A. Wilson
Barry Pakes
Malia S. Q. Murphy
Katherine M. Atkinson
Cameron Bell ... [et al.]
International Journal of Circumpolar Health, vol. 76, 2017, p. article no. 1358566
Description
Looks at the the set up of an immunization information system (IIS) to record data in hopes of helping with contact management and preventing vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks.
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2017, pp. 120-131
Description
Focuses on development of doctrine of Aboriginal rights by the courts since the 1982 amendment and defining who constitutes the "Métis people" in section 35.
"The purpose of this paper is to illustrate a range of options for constitutional reform in order to promote discussion and exploration of specific possibilities for Australia".
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 2, 1998, pp. 131-150
Description
Examines the exclusion and then limited inclusion into the dominant society, and also the dominant society's construction of the alternative group's identity.
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 2, December 6, 2017, pp. 1-29
Description
Literary criticism article discusses themes of survivance and transmotion in Vizenor’s (1978) and Jones’ (2000) debut novels, considers contexts of postmodernism and carceral theory, and the generational difference between the two authors.
Book review of The Contemporary Coast Salish edited by Bruce Granville Miller and Darby C. Stapp.
Entire review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 158.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 4, Winter, 1998, pp. 9-31
Description
Discussion of the struggle for identity and the complications not only of ethnicity and mixed heritage, but of gender and sexuality.
Scroll to page 9 to access article.
Journal of Management and Organization, vol. 23, no. 6, Special Issue: Perspectives on Indigenous Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Enterprise, 2017, p. 886–906
Description
Review of 25 peer-reviewed and academic articles which looked at cultural, social and organizational variables and were published between January 1, 1995 and December 31, 2016 found that models fell into the three categories: urban, remote and rural. Discusses the results for each.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, 1998, pp. 187-198
Description
Shows how declining agricultural results forced people to look at other means of survival, how the arrival of railroading provided the alternative employment opportunity needed, and how this all led to the departure of many Laguna to distant areas as wage laborers.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, 1998, pp. 117-134
Description
Historical look at how those individuals seeking to create Native American urban organizations, such as the American Indian Center, encountered rejection.
Population projections were made for the period 2011-2036. Concluded that given the young age, faster rate of growth, and current gap in participation rates when compared to non-Aboriginals, there is the potential for significant contributions.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 41, no. 2, 2017, pp. 65-92
Description
Analysis of rhetoric used in news coverage of 1998 referendum on the Nisga'a Treaty and 2002 BC Treaty Referendum in the National Post, Globe and Mail, Vancouver Sun, The Province, Abbotsford Times, Chilliwack Times, and Kamloops Daily News.