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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Navajo Nation"”.
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Technoeconomic feasibility of decentralized desalination in the Navajo Nation
The Navajo Nation, located in the southwest United States, faces a significant water stress issue, with approximately 30% of households lacking access to piped water. For many, connection to a piped network is infeasible and decentralized solutions, like desalination, have encountered barriers to …
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Prioritization of Potable Water Infrastructure Investments on the Navajo Nation
… levels and low socio-economic status, the Navajo Nation’s socio-economic well-being is hindered greatly in part by the lack of an adequate potable water infrastructure which has resulted in health disparities and has attributed to stunted economic growth within the Nation. Large candidate …
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Healing Diné, restoring Diné Bikéyah: Desertification mitigation and indigenous cultural renewal through traditional agriculture practices on the Navajo Nation
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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Contesting Risk, Expertise, and Environmental Justice on the Fenceline: The Cases of the Navajo Nation, Radford Arsenal, and Camp Minden
… of the most hazardous waste facilities in the nation. I analyze the construction of risk from open burning of hazardous waste from a fenceline standpoint. I discursively situate the controversy over fenceline community risk from open burning, by showing the inadequacies of official risk …
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Socializing English-Speaking Navajo Children
… used to understand storytelling practices on the Navajo Nation. This study examined how three young English-speaking Navajo children, ages 3, 4 and 6, were socialized to tell stories. The broad research question that guided this work was, 'How are young English-speaking Navajo children socialized …
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Hózhó, A Rainbow Project for Healthy People
… will attempt to embrace diversity, celebrate the Navajos heritage through incorporating their belief system and culture into the genius Loci of the place, which will have a long-term healing effect on patients during their journey of recovery. The Navajo nation is a native American reservation and …
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Practice and Practicalities in American Indigenous Community -Centered Curriculum Development
… a BIA-operated community school in a satellite Navajo community located outside the larger Navajo Nation landbase. The research discusses the dynamics of school and community interaction in such a project, issues involved in integrating the goals of community relevance and congruence with …
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Human environment interactions and collaborative adaptive capacity building in a resilience framework
… was in response to the concern and call of the National Science Foundation and of the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change that humanity needs to develop new strategies to tackle complex anthropogenic issues impacting the global environment and that there …
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Native Voices and Native Values in Sacred Landscapes Management: Bridging the Indigenous Values Gap on Public Lands Through Co-Management Policy
… dissertation is a qualitative investigation into Navajo citizen opinion on the need and form of a federal-tribal co-management model for sacred lands held in federal stewardship. The central question in this inquiry is, are co-management agreements appropriate for sacred landscapes management, and …
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Inconvenient Voting: Native Americans and The Costs of Early Voting
… elections among reservation voters on the Navajo Nation to non-reservation voters in Apache, Navajo, and Coconino counties in Arizona, I find that reservation voters prefer to vote in-person on election day while non-reservation voters prefer to vote early. I also find that early voting …
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THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN INTERCULTURAL SENSITIZER FOR TRAINING NON-NAVAJO PERSONNEL.
The purpose of this study was to develop a Navajo Intercultural Sensitizer. It is an attempt to sensitize non-Navajo educational personnel who have come to work in the Navajo Nation to the attributional system of the Navajo culture. The assimilationist, culturally destructive educational policies …
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Designing a sustainable water storage system for livestock in Bodaway Gap using contextual engineering principles and community engagement
… water remains a persistent challenge across the Navajo Nation, where environmental, infrastructural, and institutional constraints have long limited the sustainability of development efforts. This thesis applies Contextual Engineering framework that integrates technical design with sociocultural, …
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Drought Monitoring with Remote Sensing Based Land Surface Phenology Applications and Validation
… of drought on the lands of the Hopi Tribe and Navajo Nation, situated in the Northeastern corner of Arizona. This research explores the application of remote sensing data and geospatial tools in two studies to monitor drought impacts on vegetation productivity. In both studies we used land …
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The incorporation of place-based contextual engineering into water system design
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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The Impact of Internet GIS on Access to Water Quality Information
… understanding of those issues. Arsenic contamination of drinking water from privately owned groundwater wells in rural areas of the southwest the United States is one such environmental issue, which is the focus of this research project.</p> <p>Results from this study demonstrate that an …