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Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in the Native American Population

Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease
Native Americans are disproportionately affected by cardiovascular disease in comparison with other racial and ethnic groups in the United States.
Krista Goerger, Karla Abbott, Mark K. Larson, Michael Holinstat   +3 more
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Why is water sacred to Native Americans?

Open Rivers, 2017
The Lakota phrase “Mní wičhóni,” or “Water is life,” has become a new national protest anthem. It was chanted by 5,000 marchers at the Native Nations March in Washington, D.C.
Rosalyn R. LaPier
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Effect of Geography on the Analysis of Coccidioidomycosis-Associated Deaths, United States

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2016
Because coccidioidomycosis death rates vary by region, we reanalyzed coccidioidomycosis-associated mortality in the United States by race/ethnicity, then limited analysis to Arizona and California.
Jason A. Noble, Robert G. Nelson, Gudeta D. Fufaa, Paul Kang, Shira Chani Shafir, John N. Galgiani   +5 more
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Invisible women: unpacking the erasure of Native American women with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities in health surveillance

Critical Public Health
Public health authorities recognize the need for more robust data systems to characterize health inequities, particularly among those with intersectional identities (National Center for Health Statistics, 2023). Currently, it is difficult to describe the
Bailey L. Lockwood, Heather J. Williamson, Michele Sky Lee, Stephanie Russo Carroll, Neida Rodriguez, Julie S. Armin   +5 more
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Fighting Colonial Violence in “Indian Country”: Deconstructing racist sexual stereotypes of Native American Women in American popular culture and history

Angles, 2017
Colonialism, its ingrained sexism and racism, and the consequential loss of tribal sovereignty through the elaboration by the American government of a complex legal system that has limited tribal jurisdiction, have had disastrous consequences on the ...
Sophie Croisy
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Latin Americans show wide-spread Converso ancestry and imprint of local Native ancestry on physical appearance

Nature Communications, 2018
Latin Americans trace their ancestry to the admixture of Native Americans, Europeans and Sub-Saharan Africans. Here, the authors develop a novel haplotype-based approach and analyse over 6,500 Latin Americans to infer the geographically-detailed genetic ...
Juan-Camilo Chacón-Duque, Kaustubh Adhikari, Macarena Fuentes-Guajardo, Javier Mendoza-Revilla, Victor Acuña-Alonzo, Rodrigo Barquera, Mirsha Quinto-Sánchez, Jorge Gómez-Valdés, Paola Everardo Martínez, Hugo Villamil-Ramírez, Tábita Hünemeier, Virginia Ramallo, Caio C. Silva de Cerqueira, Malena Hurtado, Valeria Villegas, Vanessa Granja, Mercedes Villena, René Vásquez, Elena Llop, José R. Sandoval, Alberto A. Salazar-Granara, Maria-Laura Parolin, Karla Sandoval, Rosenda I. Peñaloza-Espinosa, Hector Rangel-Villalobos, Cheryl A. Winkler, William Klitz, Claudio Bravi, Julio Molina, Daniel Corach, Ramiro Barrantes, Verónica Gomes, Carlos Resende, Leonor Gusmão, Antonio Amorim, Yali Xue, Jean-Michel Dugoujon, Pedro Moral, Rolando González-José, Lavinia Schuler-Faccini, Francisco M. Salzano, Maria-Cátira Bortolini, Samuel Canizales-Quinteros, Giovanni Poletti, Carla Gallo, Gabriel Bedoya, Francisco Rothhammer, David Balding, Garrett Hellenthal, Andrés Ruiz-Linares   +49 more
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Louise Erdrich’s Trilogy of Justice [PDF]

Литература двух Америк, 2018
In three novels Louise Erdrich explores issues of justice involving the dominant white culture and Native Americans. A Plague of Doves and The Round House concern the aftermath of unpunished crimes committed by whites against Native Americans.
Louise Barnett
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Genetic evidence for a contribution of Native Americans to the early settlement of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2016
Available evidence strongly suggests that the first to settle on Rapa Nui were Polynesians arriving from the west around AD 1200-1253. There are, however, also signs of an early contact between Rapa Nui and South America, but genetic evidence of an early
Erik Thorsby
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A 50‐year history of the health impacts of Westernization on the lifestyle of Japanese Americans: A focus on the Hawaii–Los Angeles–Hiroshima Study

Journal of Diabetes Investigation, 2020
A medical survey of Japanese Americans have been carried out since 1970; in particular, this survey was administered to the Japanese emigrants from Hiroshima (Japan) to Hawaii or Los Angeles (USA) and their offspring.
Masayasu Yoneda, Kazuhiro Kobuke
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Book review: Native Americans in British Museums by Jack Davy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021)

Science Museum Group Journal, 2022
Shelley Saggar
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