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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"American Indian Women"”.
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Secondary Analysis of Diabetes and Psychological Distress in American Indian Women from the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS).
… settlers arrived to the United States (U.S.), American Indians (AI) have been separate and unequal members of society. After a long history of discrimination, ethnocide, genocide, and distrust, the AI have become a population with severe disparities, having the highest rates of diabetes, …
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On the front lines in the classroom: The careers of white and American Indian women teachers at the Carlisle Indian school, 1875-1933
… examines the careers and lives of white and American Indian women teachers who taught at the first federal off-reservation Indian boarding school, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1875-1933. It analyzes the ways teachers responded to federal Indian educational policies of the late …
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American Indian Women’s Health Perceptions and Health Promotion Behaviors
… Most problems affecting the health of American Indian women are related to lifestyles and health-related behaviors (Carter, Morse, Giruad, & Driskell, 2008; Linsley, Kane, & Owen, 2011). Understanding health promotion behaviors could decrease or prevent a number of chronic diseases that …
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Staging Intervention: Native Women, Decolonization, and the American Theatre
"The terrain of American theatre scholarship has seen much change in the late twentieth century; as scholars investigate intercultural and post-colonial, African-American, feminist, and other ""marginal"" theatres, the discipline's boundaries must shift. Still, although American Indian people today …
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Intimate Partner Violence: Implications For Northern Plains And Upper Midwest American Indian Mother-Daughter Dyads' Attachment Relationships
… on family violence captures the experiences of women impacted by intimate partner violence (IPV), the implications for child witnesses of IPV, and the predictive risk factors of violence toward women. In an attempt to understand the unique experiences of American Indian women and children this …
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Navigating Power and Politics: Women of Color Senior Leaders in Academe
The purpose of this study was to understand how women of color who are at the senior level of academe continue to advance while navigating and maneuvering through power and politics encountered in the organizational system. Although we know that there are few women of color at the senior level of …
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Patterns and similarities in the career paths of Native American women elementary teachers
A significant number of American Indian women have taught and still teach children in both public and government Indian schools. Yet there is very little written about these Native American women teachers, how they view themselves, and their relationship to their professional teaching careers …
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Conflict and Reconciliation: Representations of Christianity in Contemporary Native American Literature by Women
<p>The Native American literary Renaissance of the 1970s and 1980s created a web of American Indian voices interpreting the past, indicting America’s imperialism alongside Christianity for its participation in conquest, and renegotiating the cultural possibilities and losses resulting from colonial …
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A Mana Wahine inquiry into indigenous governance
… investigates the question “How can indigenous women reinvigorate their role in tribal governance structures when many such structures continue to reinforce gendered colonial constructs within which women are marginalised?” It is noted that contemporary tribal governance structures are often …
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Discerning Neighborhood Characteristics as Contributing Factors to Infant Mortality in Rural Northern Plains Communities
American Indians are distinct in their current geographic isolation and history of exclusionary policies enacted against them. Citizenship and territorial policies from the 1700s through the early 1900s have manifested in the distinctive status of many American Indian communities as sovereign …