Contemporary Native American Communities – serie
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Contemporary Native American Cultural Issues
E-bok, 2000
670 kr
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Duane Champagne has assembled a volume of top scholarship reflecting the complexity and diversity of Native American cultural life. Introductions to each topical section provide background and integrated analyses of the issues at hand. The informative and critical studies that follow offer …
Medicine Ways
Disease, Health, and Survival among Native Americans
Av Clifford E. Trafzer, Diane Weiner
Häftad, 2001
636 kr
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Improving the dire health problems faced by many Native American communities is central to their cultural, political, and economic well being. However, it is still too often the case that both theoretical studies and applied programs fail to account for Native American perspectives on the range of …
American Indians and the Urban Experience
Häftad, 2001
694 kr
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Modern American Indian life is urban, rural, and everything in-between. Lobo and Peters have compiled an unprecedented collection of innovative scholarship, stunning art, poetry, and prose that documents American Indian experiences of urban life. A pervasive rural/urban dichotomy still shapes the …
Modern Tribal Development
Paths to Self-Sufficiency and Cultural Integrity in Indian Country
Häftad, 2000
603 kr
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First Nations people know that a tribe must have control over its resources and sustain its identity as a distinct civilization for economic development to make sense. With an integrated approach to tribal societies that defines development as a means to the end of sustaining tribal character, Dean …
Alaska Native Political Leadership and Higher Education
One University, Two Universes
Inbunden, 2004
1525 kr
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Through an in-depth study of Alaska and comparative material from other indigenous communities around the world, this book explores the relationship between land and education. While the colonial function of education is just beginning to be acknowledged, Jennings highlights, at international, …
Alaska Native Political Leadership and Higher Education
One University, Two Universes
Häftad, 2004
618 kr
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Through an in-depth study of Alaska and comparative material from other indigenous communities around the world, this book explores the relationship between land and education. While the colonial function of education is just beginning to be acknowledged, Jennings highlights, at international, …
Native American Studies in Higher Education
Models for Collaboration between Universities and Indigenous Nations
Av Duane Champagne, Jay Stauss
Inbunden, 2002
1525 kr
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In this collection, Champagne and Stauss demonstrate how the rise of Native studies in American and Canadian universities exists as an extraordinary achievement in higher education. In the face of historically assimilationist agendas, institutional racism, and structural opposition by Western …
Native American Studies in Higher Education
Models for Collaboration between Universities and Indigenous Nations
Av Duane Champagne, Jay Stauss
Häftad, 2002
587 kr
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In this collection, Champagne and Stauss demonstrate how the rise of Native studies in American and Canadian universities exists as an extraordinary achievement in higher education. In the face of historically assimilationist agendas, institutional racism, and structural opposition by Western …
Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights
Legal Obstacles and Innovative Solutions
Av Mary Riley
Inbunden, 2004
1444 kr
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Riley and her group of expert contributors supply a unique set of worldwide case studies and policy analyses as guidance for indigenous communities and their partners, in attempting to protect their intellectual property. Much of the existing literature already addresses the poor fit between …
Indigenous Intellectual Property Rights
Legal Obstacles and Innovative Solutions
Av Mary Riley
Häftad, 2004
555 kr
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Riley and her group of expert contributors supply a unique set of worldwide case studies and policy analyses as guidance for indigenous communities and their partners, in attempting to protect their intellectual property. Much of the existing literature already addresses the poor fit between …
Healing and Mental Health for Native Americans
Speaking in Red
Av Ethan Nebelkopf, Mary Phillips
Inbunden, 2004
1616 kr
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Substance abuse, mental illness, and violence are a self-perpetuating vicious cycle in many Native American communities. In this book, the authors highlight the importance of eliminating health disparities and increasing the access of Native Americans to critical substance abuse and mental health …
Healing and Mental Health for Native Americans
Speaking in Red
Av Ethan Nebelkopf, Mary Phillips
Häftad, 2004
621 kr
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Substance abuse, mental illness, and violence are a self-perpetuating vicious cycle in many Native American communities. In this book, the authors highlight the importance of eliminating health disparities and increasing the access of Native Americans to critical substance abuse and mental health …
Native Americans in the School System
Family, Community, and Academic Achievement
Inbunden, 2005
1525 kr
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Carol Ward examines persistent dropout rates among Native American youth, which remain high despite overall increases in Native adult education attainment in the last twenty years. Focusing on the experiences of the Northern Cheyenne nation, she evaluates historical, ethnographic, and quantitative …
Native Americans in the School System
Family, Community, and Academic Achievement
Häftad, 2005
697 kr
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Carol Ward examines persistent dropout rates among Native American youth, which remain high despite overall increases in Native adult education attainment in the last twenty years. Focusing on the experiences of the Northern Cheyenne nation, she evaluates historical, ethnographic, and quantitative …
Rachel's Children
Stories from a Contemporary Native American Woman
Av Steve Beard
Häftad, 2004
596 kr
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Rachel's Children is a true story, based on real events. It is an engaging and humorous account of a contemporary Ojibwa household and the woman and her children who are at its core. As their lives unfold, we understand how traditional beliefs and oral history help Rachel and her family cope as …
Broken Flute
The Native Experience in Books for Children
Av Doris Seale, Beverly Slapin
Häftad, 2006
766 kr
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A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children is a companion to its predecessor published by Oyate, Through Indian Eyes: The Native Experience in Books for Children. A compilation of work by Native parents, children, educators, poets and writers, A Broken Flute contains, from a Native …
Indigenous Peoples and the Modern State
Av Duane Champagne, Karen Jo Torjesen m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
561 kr
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Champagne and his distinguished coauthors reveal how the structure of a multinational state has the potential to create more equal and just national communities for Native peoples around the globe. Many countries still face extreme differences among ethnic groups and submerged nations, leading to …
Indigenous Education and Empowerment
International Perspectives
Av Ismael Abu-Saad, Duane Champagne
Inbunden, 2006
1525 kr
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Indigenous people have often been confronted with education systems that ignore their cultural and historical perspectives. Largely unsuccessful projects of assimilation have been the predominant outcome of indigenous communities' encounters with state schools, as many indigenous students fail to …
Indigenous Education and Empowerment
International Perspectives
Av Ismael Abu-Saad, Duane Champagne
Häftad, 2006
600 kr
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Indigenous people have often been confronted with education systems that ignore their cultural and historical perspectives. Largely unsuccessful projects of assimilation have been the predominant outcome of indigenous communities' encounters with state schools, as many indigenous students fail to …
Cultural Representation in Native America
Häftad, 2006
621 kr
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Today as in the past there are many cultural and commercial representations of American Indians that, thoughtlessly or otherwise, negatively shape the images of indigenous people. Jolivétte and his co-authors challenge and contest these images, demonstrating how Native representation and identity …
Social Change and Cultural Continuity among Native Nations
Inbunden, 2006
1569 kr
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This book defines the broad parameters of social change for Native American nations in the twenty-first century, as well as their prospects for cultural continuity. Many of the themes Champagne tackles are of general interest in the study of social change including governmental, economic, …
Social Change and Cultural Continuity among Native Nations
Häftad, 2006
717 kr
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This book defines the broad parameters of social change for Native American nations in the twenty-first century, as well as their prospects for cultural continuity. Many of the themes Champagne tackles are of general interest in the study of social change including governmental, economic, …
American Indian Nations
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Av George Horse Capture, Duane Champagne m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
1616 kr
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American Indian Nations takes stock of Indian history, policy, and culture over the past 30 years. A distinctive contribution to the understanding and interpretation of current Indian affairs, policies, and community development, this dynamic commentary of contemporary issues brings together a …
American Indian Nations
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Av George Horse Capture, Duane Champagne m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
651 kr
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American Indian Nations takes stock of Indian history, policy, and culture over the past 30 years. A distinctive contribution to the understanding and interpretation of current Indian affairs, policies, and community development, this dynamic commentary of contemporary issues brings together a …
Not Far Away
The Real-life Adventures of Ima Pipiig
Av Steve Beard
Inbunden, 2007
1666 kr
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In Not Far Away, a semi-fictional memoir, Lois Beardslee gives a chilling acount of racism, particularly that leveled against Native women, in language that is supple, evocative, often comical, and always incisive. Her fictional heroine, the teacher Ima Pipiig (pronounced "buh-BEEG"), endures …
Not Far Away
The Real-life Adventures of Ima Pipiig
Av Steve Beard
Häftad, 2007
641 kr
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In Not Far Away, a semi-fictional memoir, Lois Beardslee gives a chilling acount of racism, particularly that leveled against Native women, in language that is supple, evocative, often comical, and always incisive. Her fictional heroine, the teacher Ima Pipiig (pronounced "buh-BEEG"), endures …
Not Far Away
The Real-Life Adventures of Ima Pipiig
Av Steve Beard
E-bok, 2007
753 kr
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In Not Far Away , a semi-fictional memoir, Lois Beardslee gives a chilling acount of racism, particularly that leveled against Native women, in language that is supple, evocative, often comical, and always incisive. Her fictional heroine, the teacher Ima Pipiig (pronounced "buh-BEEG"), endures …
American Indian Nations
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Av George Horse Capture, Duane Champagne m. fl.
E-bok, 2007
716 kr
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American Indian Nations takes stock of Indian history, policy, and culture over the past 30 years. A distinctive contribution to the understanding and interpretation of current Indian affairs, policies, and community development, this dynamic commentary of contemporary issues brings together a …
