scholarly journals The Medicine Wheel Revisited: Reflections on Indigenization in Counseling and Education

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824402110152
Author(s):  
Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Curriculum Development ◽  
Great Plains ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
North American ◽  
Medicine Wheel ◽  
The North ◽  
Conceptual Thought ◽  
Modern Methods ◽  
Traditional Cultures

Indigenization involves relating traditional cultures to modern methods, concepts, and science to facilitate their use by those populations. Despite attempts to indigenize both the practice of counseling and the content of educational curricula, mental health and educational deficits in Amerindian communities have remained. This article suggests indigenization in the North American context is often based on a reified view of culture that discounts naturalistic and scientific approaches, and that this dynamic inhibits progressive cultural change at institutional and community levels. A secular approach to indigenization is proposed that relates modern conceptual thought to traditional cultures in a way that is consistent with traditional constructs. The medicine wheel, traditional to North American Great Plains cultures, is applied to counseling to illustrate how concepts found in aboriginal cultures could inform modern practice with wider applications to curriculum development. Related tensions involving interpretations of aboriginal spiritualities and modernity are discussed.

Saline Seep Development and Control in the North American Great Plains - Hydroceological Aspects

1981 ◽  
pp. 115-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.R. Miller ◽  
P.L. BROWN ◽  
J.J. DONOVAN ◽  
R.N. BERGATINO ◽  
J.L. SONDEREGGER ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Great Plains ◽  
North American ◽  
The North ◽  
And Control

scholarly journals Community-Engaged Research Builds a Nature-Culture of Hope on North American Great Plains Rangelands

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hailey Wilmer ◽  
Lauren Porensky ◽  
María Fernández-Giménez ◽  
Justin Derner ◽  
David Augustine ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Great Plains ◽  
North American ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Rangeland Management ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Community Engaged Research ◽  
The North ◽  
Effective Community

In the North American Great Plains, multigenerational ranches and grassland biodiversity are threatened by dynamic and uncertain climatic, economic, and land use processes. Working apart, agricultural and conservation communities face doubtful prospects of reaching their individual goals of sustainability. Rangeland research could serve a convening platform, but experimental studies seldom involve local manager communities. The Collaborative Adaptive Rangeland Management (CARM) project, however, has undertaken a ten-year, ranch-level, participatory research effort to explore how community-engaged research can increase our understanding of conservation and ranching goals. Using ethnographic data and the nature-culture concept—which recognizes the inseparability of ecological relationships that are shaped by both biological and social processes—we examine the CARM team’s process of revising their management objectives (2016–2018). In CARM’s early days, the team established locally-relevant multifunctional goals and objectives. As team members’ understanding of the ecosystem improved, they revised objectives using more spatially, temporally and ecologically specific information. During the revision process, they challenged conventional ecological theories and grappled with barriers to success outside of their control. The emerging CARM nature-culture, based on a sense of place and grounded in hope, provides insights into effective community-engaged research to enhance rangeland livelihood and conservation outcomes.

scholarly journals Late Paleogene emergence of a North American loess plateau

Geology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Majie Fan ◽  
Ran Feng ◽  
John W. Geissman ◽  
Christopher J. Poulsen
Keyword(s):  
Great Plains ◽  
North American ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
North American Monsoon ◽  
Spatiotemporal Pattern ◽  
The North ◽  
Data Compilation ◽  
Climate Simulations ◽  
Central Rocky Mountains ◽  
Latest Eocene

Abstract The relative roles of tectonics and global climate in forming the hydroclimate for widespread eolian deposition remain controversial. Oligocene loess has been previously documented in the interior of western United States, but its spatiotemporal pattern and causes remain undetermined. Through new stratigraphic record documentation and data compilation, we reveal the time transgressive occurrence of loess beginning in the latest Eocene in the central Rocky Mountains, that expands eastward to the Great Plains across the Eocene-Oligocene transition (EOT). Our climate simulations show that moderate uplift of the southern North America Cordillera initiated drying in the Cordilleran hinterland and immediate foreland, forming a potential dust source and sink, and global cooling at the EOT expanded the drying and eolian deposition eastward by causing retreat of the North American Monsoon. Therefore, the eolian deposition reflects continental aridification induced both by regional tectonism and global climate change during the late Paleogene.

scholarly journals Effects of freshwater blue spaces may be beneficial for mental health: A first, ecological study in the North American Great Lakes region

PLoS ONE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. e0221977 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amber L. Pearson ◽  
Ashton Shortridge ◽  
Paul L. Delamater ◽  
Teresa H. Horton ◽  
Kyla Dahlin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
North American ◽  
Ecological Study ◽  
Great Lakes Region ◽  
The North ◽  
North American Great Lakes

Late Quaternary temperature record from buried soils of the North American Great Plains

Geology ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Nordt ◽  
Joseph von Fischer ◽  
Larry Tieszen
Keyword(s):  
Great Plains ◽  
North American ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Temperature Record ◽  
Buried Soils ◽  
The North

Tectonothermics of the North American great plains basement

1988 ◽  
Vol 148 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 299-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malcolm J. Drury
Keyword(s):  
Great Plains ◽  
North American ◽  
The North
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