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American Indian College Student Mentoring: A Study to Measure Changes in Self-Efficacy

Education Sciences, 2020
The underrepresentation of American Indian (AI) students pursuing higher education opportunities continues to persist. This study sought to measure the perceived changes in participants’ self-efficacy and confidence in navigating the college ...
Kelli Chelberg, Lisa Bosman
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Protecting our future generation: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial evaluating a sexual health self-care intervention with Native American youth and young adults

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background Disparities in sexually transmitted infections (STI) are an urgent problem among Native American youth and young adults which are not fully explained by different sexual or related behaviors.
Tingey Lauren, Sutcliffe Catherine, Chambers Rachel, Patel Hima, Lee Angelita, Lee Shauntel, Melgar Laura, Slimp Anna, Rompalo Anne, Craig Mariddie, Gaydos Charlotte   +10 more
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COVID-19 risk factors and mortality among Native Americans

Demographic Research, 2021
Background: Academic research on the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 among Native Americans has largely been restricted to particular indigenous groups or reservations.
Katherine Leggat-Barr, Fumiya Uchikoshi, Noreen Goldman   +2 more
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Assimilating American Indians in James Fenimore Cooper’s Novels?

Prague Journal of English Studies, 2016
The article employs critical concepts from sociology and anthropology to examine the stereotype of the Vanishing Indian and disclose its contradictory character.
Peprník Michal
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Administrative Burden and the Reproduction of Settler Colonialism: A Case Study of the Indian Child Welfare Act

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2023
The Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA) sought to end the forced removal of Native children from their tribes. Decades later, American Indian children are still placed in foster and adoptive care at disproportionately high rates.
Hana E. Brown
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Do American Indian mascots = American Indian people? Examining implicit bias towards American Indian people and American Indian mascots

American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, 2011
Empirical examinations of American Indian (AI) mascots have only recently entered into the discourse of mainstream psychology. The present studies examined implicit attitudes of non-AI people towards AI mascots and the extent to which they are related to attitudes towards AI people.
John, Chaney, Amanda, Burke, Edward, Burkley   +2 more
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Use of the evidence base in substance abuse treatment programs for American Indians and Alaska natives: pursuing quality in the crucible of practice and policy

Implementation Science, 2011
Background A variety of forces are now shaping a passionate debate regarding the optimal approaches to improving the quality of substance abuse services for American Indian and Alaska Native communities.
Fleming Candace, Fickenscher Alexandra, Daw Raymond, Dahlke Dennis, Conti Sarah G, Aarons Gregory A, Novins Douglas K, Love Craig, Masis Kathleen, Spicer Paul   +9 more
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Wakȟáŋyeža (Little Holy One) - an intergenerational intervention for Native American parents and children: a protocol for a randomized controlled trial with embedded single-case experimental design

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Trauma within Native American communities compromises parents’ parenting capacity; thus, increasing childrens’ risk for substance use and suicide over the lifespan.
Teresa Brockie, Emily E. Haroz, Katie E. Nelson, Mary Cwik, Ellie Decker, Adriann Ricker, Shea Littlepage, Justin Mayhew, Deborah Wilson, Lawrence Wetsit, Allison Barlow   +10 more
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Documenting Domination: From the Doctrine of Christian Discovery to Dominion Theology

Religions
The Doctrine of Christian Discovery is a series of fifteenth-century papal bulls that served as the theological and legal justification for the colonization of the world and the enslavement of the Original Free Nations, starting first on the African ...
Adam DJ Brett, Betty Hill (Lyons)
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Our Collective Needs and Strengths: Urban AI/ANs and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Frontiers in Sociology, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised national consciousness about health inequities that disproportionately impact American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities, yet urban AI/AN communities continue to remain a blind spot for health leaders and ...
Tara L. Maudrie, Kerry Hawk Lessard, Jessica Dickerson, Kevalin M. W. Aulandez, Allison Barlow, Victoria M. O’Keefe   +5 more
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