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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"Northern Plains"”.
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Development of the American Indian Biculturalism Inventory - Northern Plains
… of the American Indian Biculturalism Inventory-Northern Plains (AIBI-NP). The AIBI-NP was designed to measure participants perceived level of cultural identification within both American Indian and Majority Culture perspectives.</p><p>Results of Factor and Item Analyses produced a 25-item scale …
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Predicting Body Mass Index in Northern Plains American Indian Children
… (child BMI). This study found that 33% of Northern Plains American Indian children were overweight and 20% were at risk for becoming overweight. Results also revealed that demographics, diet and physical activity, and weight-related attitudes explained a significant amount of variance ( …
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Breakdown Risk in Persons with Tuberculosis in a Northern Plains Indian Tribe
<p>Tuberculosis (TB) remains a serious disease on Indian Reservations in the United States. Tuberculosis is classified as Class I, II, III, IV, and V. Class I TB status means that the individual has no disease. Class n means an individual is infected with tuberculosis but does not have the active …
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Cultural Hybridization: Bicultural Self-Efficacy And Resilience In Northern Plains American Indians
… and its relationship to resilience in Northern Plains American Indians. American Indians in the Northern Plains, like many tribes in the United States, experienced a calamitous history marked by interactions with the federal government that were often fatal to the Indigenous peoples of …
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Aboriginal patterns of trade between the Columbia Basin and the Northern Plains
Summary of the historical and archaeological evidence of trade through the Western Montana area before the arrival of the whites. Includes numerous examples of trade between Salish and Kootenai Indians and other tribes.
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Aboriginal patterns of trade between the Columbia Basin and the Northern Plains
Summary of the historical and archaeological evidence of trade through the Western Montana area before the arrival of the whites. Includes numerous examples of trade between Salish and Kootenai Indians and other tribes.
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The Norby site : a mummy cave complex bison kill on the northern plains
… At one time, researchers thought that the Plains region was abandoned during the Altithermal as a direct result of extreme drought conditions. The results of this study, however, attest to human occupation of the Plains during this climatic interval, especially along major water courses. It …
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The Effect of Biculturalism on Depression in Northern Plains Native American College Students
… on depression in a propsed sample of 52 Northern Plains Native American College students (32 female, 20 male). This study tested the applicability of the Orthogonal Theory of Biculturalism (Oetting and Beauvais, 1992). Subjects completed the Northern Plains Biculturalism scale (NPBI) and …
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Convergent And Discriminant Validity of Biculturalism And Depression Among Northern Plains American Indians
<p>In order to further develop the Northern Plains Biculturalism Inventory-Revised into a more valid and reliable research instrument for providing data regarding cultural orientation and identification among Northern Plains American Indians, convergent and discriminant validity was investigated. …
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The Impact Of Biculturalism On Human Learned Helplessness With Northern Plains Native Americans
… level of biculturalism was assessed using the Northern Plains Biculturalism Inventory (NPBI), a 30 item questionnaire which assesses the degree of cultural competence on two orthogonally related cultural dimensions. Learned helplessness effects were inferred for groups as a function of anagrams …
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Tailoring a Web-Delivered Health Intervention for Northern Plains American Indian Public University Students
… tool, to be culturally relevant to Northern Plains AI (AI) public university students. Methods: Focus groups (N=15) and in-depth interviews (N=11) were conducted with self-identified AI college students on the campus of South Dakota State University. Participants were recruited with …
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The Effect Of Biculturalism On Self-Esteem In Northern Plains Native American College Students
… biculturalism on self esteem in a sample of 51 Northern Plains Native American college students (29 females, 22 males). Subjects completed the Northern Plains Biculturalism Inventory (NPB1; Allen & French, 1994) and the Index of Self-Esteem (ISE; Hudson, 1982). Pearson Product- Moment …
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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 …
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Convergent and discriminate validity of acculturation and eating disorders measures in Northern Plains Native Americans
… available measures of Biculturalism, such as the Northern Plains Biculturalism Inventory (NPB1: Alien & French, 1994), are hampered by construct and cultural validity weaknesses that limit their usefulness in significantly contributing to our increased understanding of the effects of Biculturalism …
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Terminal transitions : an analysis of projectile points from the terminal middle period on the northern plains
… interpretations of archaeological sites on the Northern Plains. To aid in this clarification, twelve projectile point assemblages from nine previously excavated sites on the Saskatchewan and Alberta Plains were studied. These assemblages were subjected to geometric morphometric and discriminate …
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Money for something? Investigating the effectiveness of biodiversity conservation interventions in the Northern Plains of Cambodia
… implemented during 2005-2012 in the Northern Plains landscape of Cambodia. The interventions included the establishment of Protected Areas (PAs), village-level land-use planning, and three different types of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) instituted within the PAs. The PES …
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Intimate Partner Violence: Implications For Northern Plains And Upper Midwest American Indian Mother-Daughter Dyads' Attachment Relationships
… the first studies to examine the experiences of Northern Plains and Upper Midwest American Indian mothers' and daughters' attachment relationships and the influence of IPV utilizing the conceptual framework of the medicine wheel and the theoretical framework that includes IPV, attachment, ptsd …
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Affect and Its Disorders in a Northern Plains Indian Community: Issues in Cross -Cultural Discourse and Diagnosis
… in an American Indian community on the Northern Plains, this study examined the cultural patterning of reported experience in the context of standardized diagnostic interviewing. More specifically, analytic attention to the discursive construction of self among Indian respondents …
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Attitudes, Beliefs, Perceived Risk, and Knowledge of Colorectal Cancer in an Adult Population in a Northern Plains Community
… selected variables in an adult population in a Northern Plains community. These variables were: (a) demographic characteristics such as age, gender, marital status, educational level occupation, and prior exposure to colorectal; (b) attitudes and beliefs about colorectal cancer, including fear …
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Worlds Apart: Social Mechanisms of Contrasting Fertility in European American and Native American Populations on the Northern Plains
… fertility and household economy on Montana's Northern Plains. Low fertility and outmigration in European American communities have led to dramatic depopulation of the region. At the same time, isolated Indian reservations in the area have grown in population due to high fertility and return …
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