Native Generations: A Campaign Addressing Infant Mortality Among American Indians and Alaska Natives In Urban Areas
Alternate Title
Native Generations Infant Mortality Campaign
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Shira Rutman
Julie Loughran
Leah Tanner
Leslie L. Randall
American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, vol. 23, no. 5, 2016, pp. 59-77
Description
Looks at assessment of health communication campaign directed at caregivers promoting increased use of culturally specific resources in health care, support services and programs.
Native Hawaiians and Psychology: The Cultural and Historical Context of Indigenous Ways of Knowing
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laurie D. McCubbin
Anthony Marsella
Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, vol. 15, no. 4, 2009, p. 374–387
Description
Discusses the historic events that have impacted Native Hawaiians and reviews psychology research from an Indigenous perspective.
[Native Historians Write Back: Decolonizing American Indian History]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Julianne Newmark
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 25, no. 4, Animal Studies, Winter, 2013, pp. 107-111
Description
Book review of Native Historians Write Back edited by Susan A. Miller and James Riding In.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 107.
Native Languages Supporting Indigenous Knowledge
Alternate Title
International Expert Group Meeting on Indigenous Languages: 8 - 10 January 2008, New York
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Priscilla Settee
Description
Illustrates how language is essential to the survival of a culture and how state-imposed destruction of Indigenous languages has caused the loss of traditional knowledge systems.
Native Media's Communities
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Steven Leuthold
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 21, no. 2, 1997, pp. 165-195
Description
Argues that through media Indigenous peoples can develop a new sense of community while still maintaining traditional values and communication forms.
Native Narratives: The Representation of Native Americans in Public Broadcasting
Alternate Title
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Library of Congress
GBH Archiv
Sally Smith
Description
Looks at radio and television coverage of key events or issues in both non-Native American-produced and Native American-created programs found in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting collection. Divided into five sections: (Mis)Representations of Native Americans; Termination, Relocation, and Restoration; The American Indian Movement; Native Americans in Contemporary News Media; and Visual Sovereignty: Native-Created Public Media.
Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula: Who We Are (2nd Edition); The Sea is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Alan D. McMillan
BC Studies, no. 190, Histories of Settler Colonialism, Summer, 2016, pp. 135-137
Description
Book reviews of:
Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula by Jacilee Wray.
The Sea is My Country by Joshua L. Reid.
Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 135.
Native Science and Western Science: Possibilities For a Powerful Collaboration
Alternate Title
Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture on Indigenous Land, Culture and Community
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Leroy Little Bear
Description
Looks at bringing together current fields of learning with Indigenous worldviews.
Duration: 1:32:51.
The Native Struggle for Liberation: Alcatraz
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jack D. Forbes
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 18, no. 4, 1994, pp. 123-130
Description
Explains the significance of Alcatraz; including the fact that it was temporarily beyond the jurisdiction of authorities, it liberated the psyche of Aboriginal peoples, and it was an experiment in self-determination.
Native Tourism: Endangered Spaces?
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Robert L. Rock
Prairie Forum, vol. 17, no. 2, Native Studies, Fall, 1992, pp. 295-311
Description
Examines the heritage tourism industry in southwestern Alberta and the possible expansion of cultural tourism into the Crowsnest Pass, Fort Macleod and Cardston regions.
Natives and Nationalism: The Americanization of Kateri Tekakwitha
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alan Greer
Catholic Historical Review, vol. 90, no. 2, April 2004, pp. 260-272
Description
Looks at the significance of Kateri Tekakwitha, and the nostalgic, fictionalized autobiography The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha written by Ellen Walworth.
A Nativist Movement at Metlakatla Mission
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Andrew Rettig
BC Studies, no. 46, Summer, 1980, pp. 28-39
Description
Looks at William Duncan's cultural imperialism that produced a religious movement of mixed Christian and Native rites in the Metlakatla Tsimshian groups.
The Nature and Legal Capacity of Pimicikamak and Its Government
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Colin Gillespie
Description
Defines Pimicikamak Okimawin as a body politic and corporate under Canadian municipal law and uses archival research and oral history analysis to address inquiries by the Government of Manitoba.
The Nature of Métis Claims
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Paul Driben
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 1983, pp. 183-196
Description
Suggests there are three perspectives about Aboriginal claims: legal, cultural, and political; considers Métis claims in cultural and political terms.
Navajo Curriculum Center
Alternate Title
Navaho Curriculum Center
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gary Witherspoon
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 7, no. 3, May 1968, pp. [36-41]
Description
Describes the situation preceding the establishment of the Center, which provides materials dealing with Navajo history, language, and culture.
Navajo Nation Brain Drain: An Exploration of Returning College Graduates' Perspectives
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Quintina Ava Bearchief-Adolpho
Aaron P. Jackson
Steven A. Smith
Moroni T. Benally
International Indigenous Policy Journal, vol. 8, no. 1, January 2017, pp. 1-25
Description
Looks at the primary reasons for returning back to the reservation to live and work: family support, community, cultural identity, the simple life, reservation economy, and commitment to the reservation.
The Navajo Student and the Tennessee Self Concept
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Phyllis Tempest
Journal of American Indian Education, vol. 24, no. 3, July 1985, pp. [1-7]
Description
Study used test, in combination with others, to evaluate self-concept as a contributor to academic underachievement.
Navajo Women in the City: Lessons from a Quarter-Century of Relocation
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ann Metcalf
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 6, no. 1/2, Spring-Summer, 1982, pp. 71-89
Description
An examination on the effects of Navajo women moving to urban settings in the mid-twentieth century by looking at the rationale for the relocations, comparing field-work research and formulating new research strategies for the future.
Navigation and Negotiation of FamBamz on Facebook
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Tuiloma Lina Samu
Journal of Global Indigeneity, vol. 1, no. 2, Reterritorialising Social Media: Indigenous People Rise Up, 2015
Description
Speaker discusses history of colonization in the Pacific Islands, characteristics of the Pasifika community in Aotearoa (New Zealand) and her research into how young adults are using social media to express identity.
Duration: 40:15.
A Necessary Evil: Framing an American Indian Legal Identity
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dwanna L. Robertson
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 37, no. 4, 2013, pp. 115-139
Description
Comments on the vast complexity regarding the requirements of American Indians to prove racial heritage and why many cannot.