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Native American Tribes and dam removal: Restoring the Ottaway, Penobscot, and Elwha rivers

Water Alternatives, 2022
Since the early 1900s, more than 1700 dams have been removed from rivers in the United States. Native American Tribes have played a key role in many significant removals, bringing cultural, economic, and legal resources to bear on the process.
Coleen A. Fox, Nicholas J. Reo, Brett Fessell, Frank Dituri   +3 more
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The Eskimo-Aleut Dentition: Crown and Root Morphology

Acta Stomatologica Croatica, 2020
Objective of work: This paper provides an overview of crown and root morphology in Eskimo-Aleut populations of the American Arctic. For context, Eskimo-Aleut dental variation is compared to closely related American Indians and distantly related Europeans.
G. Richard Scott
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Bioactive vegetables integrated into ethnic “Three Sisters Crops” garden targeting foods for type 2 diabetes-associated health disparities of American Indian communities

Journal of Ethnic Foods, 2017
Background: Health-targeted ethnic food models are essential to address worldwide health disparities. One population of the United States that experiences some of the worst rates of diet-related chronic diseases is the American Indians.
Lokesh K. Mishra, Jacob Walker-Swaney, Dipayan Sarkar, Kalidas Shetty   +3 more
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Joint association of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor variants with abdominal obesity in American Indians: the Strong Heart Family Study. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Cigarette smoke is a strong risk factor for obesity and cardiovascular disease. The effect of genetic variants involved in nicotine metabolism on obesity or body composition has not been well studied.
Yun Zhu, Jingyun Yang, Fawn Yeh, Shelley A Cole, Karin Haack, Elisa T Lee, Barbara V Howard, Jinying Zhao   +7 more
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FORMATION OF NATIVE AMERICAN WRITTEN LITERARY TRADITION [PDF]

Вісник університету ім. А. Нобеля. Серія Філологічні науки, 2021
Article deals with the attempt to describe the creating of Native American and First Nations of Canada written literature. The aim of our study is to characterize the phenomenon of the literary struggle for Indian independence as a historically ...
Oksana G. Shostak
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THE PREFERRED MODEL OF ENGLISH FOR PERSONAL, NATIONAL, AND GLOBAL COMMUNICATION IN ELF CONTEXT: A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN FILIPINOS AND INDIANS

Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2018
An experimental investigation was conducted to compare preferred models of English for personal, national, and global communication in ELF context between Filipinos and Indians.
Olusiji Lasekan
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“In a Few Years the Red Man Will Live Only in Legend and in Cooper’s Charming Accounts”: Portrayals of American Indians in Danish Travel Literature in the Mid- and Late Nineteenth Century

American Studies in Scandinavia, 2016
During the middle and late nineteenth century, a number of Danish travel writers visited the United States with a view to narrating about the New World to their readers back home.
Jørn Brøndal
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Ungulates of the middle Miocene Monarch Mill Formation, Churchill County, Nevada, USA [PDF]

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2022
A middle Miocene, early Barstovian land mammal age vertebrate assemblage, the Eastgate local fauna (LF), is known in the basal-most part of the Monarch Mill Formation.
KENT S. SMITH, NICHOLAS J. CZAPLEWSKI, MARGERY C. COOMBS   +2 more
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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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Increased Risk of Sarcomas in Children With Congenital Anomalies: Findings From the Genetic Overlap Between Anomalies and Cancer in Kids (GOBACK) Registry Linkage Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pediatric sarcomas are a heterogeneous group of tumors that contribute disproportionately to cancer mortality in children. Although congenital anomalies are among the strongest known risk factors for childhood cancer, the risk of specific sarcoma subtypes among affected individuals has not yet been thoroughly evaluated. Procedure We
Russ Wolters, Ji Yun Tark, Tiffany M. Chambers, Tania A. Desrosiers, Michael E. Scheurer, Charles Shumate, Wendy N. Nembhard, Mahsa M. Yazdy, Eirini Nestoridi, Amanda E. Janitz, Jean Paul Tanner, Russell S. Kirby, Jason L. Salemi, Yao Yu, Chad D. Huff, Sharon E. Plon, Philip J. Lupo, Jeremy M. Schraw   +17 more
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