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Alcoholism treatment in native americans
… it is an important public health issue among Native Americans with their rates of preventable deaths (in large part alcohol related) at 133% higher than their European American counterparts. One of the problems of current addiction models is that they historically have been developed based on …
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Inconvenient Voting: Native Americans and The Costs of Early Voting
… This research asks how the costs of voting for Native Americans affects their participation in systems of early voting. To investigate this relationship, I elucidate the social, economic, cultural, political, and geographic factors that render political participation more difficult for Native …
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Red ink: Native Americans picking up the pen in the colonial period
<p>This dissertation looks at the ways that Native Americans appropriated alphabetic literacy for their own purposes in the colonial period. Studies of Native writing tend to begin with the Mohegan preacher Samson Occom whose A Sermon Preached by Samson Occom (1772) is the first known publication …
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A Descriptive Study of Native Americans Participation in HIV Testing in Montana
… characteristics and risk behaviors of Native Americans infected with HIV/AIDS. The fact HIV/AIDS does not appear to have had a disproportionate impact on Montana’s American Indian population at the present time is somewhat surprising given other markers of potential HIV risk, such as …
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A Descriptive Study of Native Americans Participation in HIV Testing in Montana
… characteristics and risk behaviors of Native Americans infected with HIV/AIDS. The fact HIV/AIDS does not appear to have had a disproportionate impact on Montana’s American Indian population at the present time is somewhat surprising given other markers of potential HIV risk, such as …
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Native Americans in Picture Books Recommended for Early Childhood Classrooms, 1945--1999
… the sample contained accurate information about Native Americans. The other 58 were problematic. Based on the findings, recommendations for early childhood teacher education programs and the field of children's literature are presented.
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The Impact Of Biculturalism On Human Learned Helplessness With Northern Plains Native Americans
… in response to feedback from either a Native American or European American researcher. A total of 55 Native Americans and 73 European Americans were assigned randomly to one of three feedback conditions (success, failure, neutral) conducted by a study blind examiner of either American …
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How Practices Drive Persistence: The Transformational Consumption Journey of Native Americans in Higher Education
… there is a decline in the enrollment of Native American students and a decrease in Native American scholars. The President of the United States, in an October 2021 briefing and with the issuance of an executive order named The White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, …
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Convergent and discriminate validity of acculturation and eating disorders measures in Northern Plains Native Americans
… its scores from 205 (79 male, 126 female) Native American participants with subsequent scores from another commonly-used Biculturalism measure, the American Indian Cultural Orientation Scale (AICOS) by LaFromboise and Rowe (1995), along with scores from two theoretically unrelated scales …
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The relationship between cultural identification, emotional regulation, mental health and tobacco use and Native Americans
… in terms of predicting health outcomes for Native Americans. These groupings consist of White Identification, Native American Identification and an Integration of these identifications. These cultural identification groups were then used to predict both psychological and physical health …
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The Iconographic Owl through the Eyes of American Artists: From Native Americans to Joseph Cornell
… write. It is a symbol with many meanings to Native Americans, from guardian to an omen of approaching death; the owl’s presence could be both a blessing and a curse. As western society spread American artists used the owl as a symbol in folk and fine art. Artists like John James Audubon and …
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Native American Chic: The Marketing Of Native Americans In New York Between The World Wars
… analyzes museum and gallery exhibitions of Native American art mounted in the United States, particularly New York City, during the interwar period, and documents the immediate and lasting impact these shows and their promotion had on the emergence of "Indian Chic" in women's fashion and …
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The Effect of Staged Diabetes Management on Metabolic Control in Native Americans with Type II Diabetes
<p>Native Americans have a high prevalence of diabetes and diabetes complications (Gohdes, Kaufman, & Valway, 1993). However, there are few published accounts of diabetes intervention studies with Native Americans. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of Staged Diabetes Management on …
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Holding the line: the changing policies of the British Army with respect to Native Americans, 1759-1774
… pursued by the British Army with respect to Native Americans between 1759 and 1774, when the British Army was in occupation of the colonial American frontier and how and why those policies changed. During this time the army’s policy on Native Americans altered greatly; prior to Pontiac’s War …
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The Relationship Between Documented Foot Care and Amputation Rates in Native Americans with Diabetes on Two Midwest Reservations
… diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) is epidemic among the Native American population. In the Aberdeen Area Indian Health Service (AAIHS), approximately one in three Native Americans 45 years old have diabetes (AAIHS, 1991). Complications accompanying NIDDM are also more prevalent in the Native American …
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Colonoware, Creolization, and Interactions Between African Americans and Native Americans During the Colonial Period in the South Carolina Lowcountry
… of low-fired, handbuilt ceramics representing Native American, African American, and European traditions, is a tangible result of the interactions between Native Americans and African Americans in the South Carolina Lowcountry during the Colonial Period. The colonowares found in association …
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An Inquiry Into the Effects of Bilingualism on Native and Non-Native Americans, Viewed in Sociopsychologic and Cultural Terms
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Cultural Landscapes in Conflict: Addressing the Interests and Landscape Perceptions of Native Americans, the National Park Service, and the American Public in National Parks
… many areas which have cultural significance to Native American peoples have been adversely impacted by national park recreationalists. This thesis addresses the significance of these impacts along with other management issues associated with conflicting landscape perceptions of national park …
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Cultural Landscapes in Conflict: Addressing the Interests and Landscape Perceptions of Native Americans, the National Park Service, and the American Public in National Parks
… many areas which have cultural significance to Native American peoples have been adversely impacted by national park recreationalists. This thesis addresses the significance of these impacts along with other management issues associated with conflicting landscape perceptions of national park …
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