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Wendigos, Eye Killers, Skinwalkers: The Myth of the American Indian Vampire and American Indian “Vampire” Myths [PDF]

Text Matters, 2016
We all know vampires. Count Dracula and Nosferatu, maybe Blade and Angel, or Stephenie Meyer’s sparkling beau, Edward Cullen. In fact, the Euro-American vampire myth has long become one of the most reliable and bestselling fun-rides the entertainment ...
Corinna Lenhardt
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Burden of Pseudoexfoliation and Pigmentary Glaucoma among American Indian or Alaska Native Patients [PDF]

Ophthalmology Science
Objective: To evaluate differences in glaucoma subtype, patient characteristics, and treatment among American Indian or Alaska Native patients compared with other demographic groups. Design: Retrospective observational study.
Samuel A. Cohen, MD, Md Enamul Haque, PhD, Suzann Pershing, MD, MS, Ann Caroline Fisher, MD, Nisha Acharya, MD, MS, Emily Y. Chew, MD, Julia A. Haller, MD, Leslie G. Hyman, PhD, Aaron Y. Lee, MD, MSCI, Cecilia S. Lee, MD, MS, Alice C. Lorch, MD, Flora Lum, MD, Felipe Andrade Medeiros, MD, PhD, Joan W. Miller, MD, Alexander Roland Miranda, MD, Divya S. Srikumaran, MD, Catherine Q. Sun, MD, Swarup S. Swaminathan, MD, Christina L. Thomas-Virnig, PhD, Suzanne W. van Landingham, MD, Fasika A. Woreta, MD, MPH   +20 more
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Rigorous evaluation of a substance use and teen pregnancy prevention program for American Indian girls and their female caregivers: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Early sexual initiation is associated with higher risk for sexually transmitted infection, teen pregnancy, domestic violence and substance use in later adolescence and early adulthood.
Rachel A. Chambers, Jaime Begay, Hima Patel, Jennifer Richards, Danielle Nelson, Summer Rosenstock, Ronni Huskon, Kristin Mitchell, Tiffani Begay, Lauren Tingey   +9 more
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Measuring the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Diné and White Mountain Apache school personnel, families, and students: protocol for a prospective longitudinal cohort study

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background This paper describes the protocol for a longitudinal cohort study, “Project SafeSchools” (PSS), which focuses on measuring the effects of COVID-19 and the return to in-person learning on Diné (Navajo) and White Mountain Apache (Apache) youth ...
Joshuaa D. Allison-Burbank, Allison Ingalls, Paul Rebman, Rachel Chambers, Renae Begay, Ryan Grass, Alicia Tsosie, Shannon Archuleta, Allison Barlow, Francene Larzelere, Laura Hammitt, Lauren Tingey, Emily Haroz   +12 more
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GENDER EQUALITY AND WOMEN’S POWER IN AMERICAN INDIAN TRADITIONAL CULTURE IN ZITKALA-SA'S SHORT STORIES [PDF]

Humanus: Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu-ilmu Humaniora, 2018
This article intends to reveal gender equality and women’s power in American Indian traditional culture before they were assimilated in white American society in the late nineteenth century as reflected in Zitkala-Sa’s short stories, Impressions of an ...
Olga Anneke Rorintulus
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Testing the efficacy of a brief sexual risk reduction intervention among high-risk American Indian adults: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

BMC Public Health, 2016
Background American Indian adults are more likely to experience co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders than adults of other racial/ethnic groups and are disproportionately burdened by the most common sexually transmitted infections ...
Rachel Chambers, Lauren Tingey, Anna Beach, Allison Barlow, Anne Rompalo   +4 more
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Incident Strokes Among American Indian Individuals With Atrial Fibrillation

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2021
BACKGROUND American Indian individuals experience a relatively high risk for cardiovascular disease and have exhibited a higher risk of stroke compared with other racial and ethnic minorities.
José M. Sanchez, Stacey E. Jolly, Thomas A. Dewland, Zian H. Tseng, Gregory Nah, Eric Vittinghoff, Gregory M. Marcus   +6 more
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COPING WITH TRAUMA: SELF-PORTRAYAL IN LINDA HOGAN’S MEMOIR [PDF]

University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series, 2022
This essay demonstrates that in Linda Hogan’s The Woman Who Watches over the World (2001) the “I” confronts the trauma of the past and of the present in order to reconcile her self with her personal and communal histories in the aftermath of the riding ...
Ludmila Martanovschi
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Diné (Navajo) female perspectives on mother–daughter communication and cultural assets around the transition to womanhood: a cross-sectional survey

BMC Women's Health, 2021
Background The inclusion of protective factors (“assets”) are increasingly supported in developing culturally grounded interventions for American Indian (AI) populations.
Jennifer Richards, Rachel Strom Chambers, Jaime Lynn Begay, Kendrea Jackson, Lauren Tingey, Hima Patel, Scott Carvajal, Stephanie Russo Carroll, Nicolette Teufel-Shone, Allison Barlow   +9 more
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Fighting for the Taste Buds of Our Children

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2019
In this commentary, I focus on the impacts of Indian boarding school food on American Indian foodways and community as a source of acculturation that has a lasting effects even in the present day.
A-dae Romero-Briones
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