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State Crime, Native Americans and COVID-19
State Crime, 2021 This paper examines how COVID-19 has disproportionately affected Native Americans. It frames the problem as one of existing structural disadvantage that is the result of settler colonialism, showing a history of abuse and neglect in earlier pandemics ...
Laura Finley
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Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs, 2021 In the summer of 2018, an affordable housing crisis in Minneapolis, Minnesota led to the erection of a homeless encampment infamously labeled, “Tent City.” Publicized by media as a camp for homeless Native Americans, pervasive myths and stereotypes ...
Jeanine R. Jackson +1 more
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Native Americans and Monetary Sanctions
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2022 Native Americans are disproportionately affected by the criminal legal system, yet comparative analyses of criminal legal outcomes and experiences among racial and ethnic groups rarely center the experiences of Native Americans.
Robert Stewart +5 more
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Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 2022 The present research tested whether cultural tightness–looseness accounts for implicit associations between American and ethnic identities. Two datasets from Project Implicit were used to assess the extent to which the concepts American vs.
Henry Lopez, Thierry Devos, Angela Somo
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Westernization of lifestyle affects quantitative and qualitative changes in adiponectin
Cardiovascular Diabetology, 2017 Background Although Japanese–Americans and native Japanese share the same genetic predispositions, they live different lifestyles, resulting in insulin resistance in Japanese–Americans.
Mitsunobu Kubota +7 more
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NATIVE AMERICAN SPIRITUALITY AND NATURAL LANDSCAPE IN N. SCOTT MOMADAY'S POETRY
Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching, 2023 Native Americans are the first people to reside in the United States of America, specifically the northern part of it. One of the famous Native American poets is Scott Momaday. Momaday is a Kiowa Native American poet, storywriter, and novelist.
Mustafa Amjed Jasim +1 more
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Native American History as Counter-Discourse in James Welch's Narratives: The Examples of "Fools Crow" and "Killing Custer" [PDF]
English Studies at NBUA peculiar dimension in the Native American writing is the documentation of the history of the Native Americans' traditional lives before, during and after their encounter with the white settlers. It is a development that is essentially explicable within
Issa Omotosho Garuba
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Nature Communications, 2017 People of Mexico have diverse historical and genetic background. Here, Romero-Hidalgo and colleagues sequence whole genomes of Native Americans of Mexico, and show demographic history and genetic variation shared among subgroups of Native Americans.
Sandra Romero-Hidalgo +30 more
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Whose North America is it? “Nobody owns it. It owns itself.”
American Studies in Scandinavia, 2018 Responding to the question, “Whose North America is it?,” this essay argues North America does not belong to anyone. As a Sonoran Desert Tohono O’odham said of the mountain: “Nobody owns it.
Margaret Connell-Szasz
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The Relationship between Native American Ancestry, Body Mass Index and Diabetes Risk among Mexican-Americans. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Higher body mass index (BMI) is a well-established risk factor for type 2 diabetes, and rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes are substantially higher among Mexican-Americans relative to non-Hispanic European Americans.
Hao Hu +4 more
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