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Rites of conflict among North American Indians
… societies by rites of conflict, North American Indian tribes, mostly within the United States, are studied herein as traditional societies of cultural and ecological diversity, The life of the Indian was rich in ceremony. Pueblo males were estimated to have spent almost half of their …
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Rhetorical Agency And Survivance: American Indians In College Composition
<p>American Indian writers in college have a distinct cultural background related to rhetorical agency and language. Particularly for Indian students who grew up on reservations, the effects of official federal policies regarding the use of English for assimilation remain significant. However, in …
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Historical Trauma, Coping, and Positive Mental Health Among American Indians
American Indians (AI) have survived numerous historical tragedies resulting in posttraumatic stress, unresolved historical grief, and historical trauma (Brave Heart & DeBruyn, 1998). AIs also face a heightened risk for undergoing traumatic and violent life events compared to other ethnic and racial …
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Imagining the Wild(er)ness: British Romantic Writers and American Indians
"Chapter 4, ""Felicia Hemans and the Question of Redemption,"" examines Hemans' poems about Indian belief systems. In a variety of spiritual scenarios, some of which promise salvation while others contemplate damnation, Hemans wrestles with her own concerns about faith and an afterlife through her …
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The Familiar Foreigner: English Colonists and American Indians Writing Each Other
… (1608-c. 1750), English colonists portray Native American cultures as completely foreign yet eerily familiar. Captivity narratives play on foreignness while missionary documents play on familiarity; but both fall back on (and, ultimately, feed on) the other in their characterizations of …
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Cultural Hybridization: Bicultural Self-Efficacy And Resilience In Northern Plains American Indians
… 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 North America, …
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The Treatment of American Indians in Selected American Literature: A Radical Critique
The dissertation examines American literature dealing with native Americans and develops a radical perspective based, in part, on Marxist literary criticism and moral criticism, applying this approach to works of Cooper, Longfellow, Thoreau, Custer, Garland, Jackson, Sandoz, Corle, Manfred, …
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Alexander von Humboldt and nineteenth-century ideas on the origin of American Indians
… origins. Humboldt conducted investigations on Indians during his precedent-setting scientific expedition to Meso- and South America during the years 1799--1804. Officially sponsored by the Spanish crown, the main purposes for this expedition were twofold: to examine, evaluate, and discredit …
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Convergent And Discriminant Validity of Biculturalism And Depression Among Northern Plains American Indians
… and identification among Northern Plains American Indians, convergent and discriminant validity was investigated. Two hundred and one Northern Plains American Indians between the ages of 18 and 76 participated in the study.</p> <p>Convergent validity was established in that both the …
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Improving Treatment Outcomes For American Indians With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Through The Use Of Telepsychaitry
… 20% since the start of the Covid-19pandemic. For American Indians, the prevalence of PTSD ranged between 16 to 24% prior to the start of the pandemic. American Indians living in rural and tribal communities often experience significant barriers to accessing quality mental health treatment. For …
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Prenatal care and pregnancy-related health beliefs among American Indians on Wind River Reservation, Wyoming
… of this study was to elicit information from the American Indians and their health care providers on the Wind River Indian Reservation regarding their perceptions of pregnancy-related health beliefs. A second purpose was to examine the relationship between American Indian and health care provider …
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Quality of Life among Southwest American Indians and Alaska Natives Living with the Hepatitis C Virus
Background: Hepatitis C Virus is considered to be a global public health threat because seventy-five percent of infected persons have no symptoms and are unaware of their infection. It is significant to note that AI/ANs commonly contend with issues that prevent them from receiving or seeking …
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Fur, fangs and feathers: colonial and counter-colonial portrayals of American Indians in young adult fantasy literature
… postcolonial studies of the portrayals of Native American characters in children’s and young adult literature, the majority of these have focused on historical novels, rather than analysing fantasy literature. Additionally, I have found no direct comparisons between texts by Native and non-Native …
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U.S. Governmental and Native Voices in the Nineteenth Century: Rhetoric in the Removal and Allotment of American Indians
This study situates institutional and American Indian discourses at the interstices of 19th century ideologies that underscored interactions of the U.S.-Native relationship. Specifically, the project argues that both U.S. governmental and American Indian voices contributed to the policies of …
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Surviving and thriving: an integrated critical theory of chronic pain from stories of urban American Indians living with chronic pain
… to inform better care practices and policies for American Indians living off-reservation by discerning relationships between chronic pain and colonization and developing an integrated critical theory of chronic pain. Methods: This study uses a concurrent transformative mixed methods design with …
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An investigation of test bias of a kindergarten screening battery in predicting achievement and educational placement for American Indians and Caucasians
… grade. Approximately 45 students per grade were American Indian, with the remainder Caucasian.Multiple regression analysis was used to examine the relationship between the KSB, race, and its interaction with each criterion variable. The predictor variables were the Peabody Picture Vocabulary …
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"Choosing the Jesus Way:" the Assemblies of God's Home Missions to American Indians and the Development of an Indian Pentecostal Identity
… of the Assemblies of God's Home Missions to American Indians, the development of an American Indian leadership in the denomination and the development of a Pentecostal Indian identity. The history that is told in this work is that of a century-long struggle by American Indian Pentecostals for …
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A culture specific grief intervention and its affects upon coping behavior and perceived social support among American Indians: A treatment development study
… social problems (e.g., substance use/abuse) in American Indian communities, but interventions aimed at addressing the losses experienced by this population are virtually non-existent. Members of a tribe in Montana identified historical unresolved grief and personal grief, as the most salient …
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