Native Insurgent Literacy in Colonial California

2019 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
pp. 2-10
Author(s):  
Steven W. Hackel
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
California Indians ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Spanish Colonization ◽  
Indian Men ◽  
Colonial California

The catastrophe of Spanish colonization for California's indigenous populations has made it easy for historians to overlook the skills that some Indians learned in the missions and the ways in which those who survived the missions used these hard-won skills to resist colonial rule and advance their own interests. One such skill was alphabetic literacy, which a select few California Indians in the missions acquired and used in their own distinctive ways. Focusing on the experiences of a few heretofore obscure yet important individuals, this article briefly compares the experiences with alphabetic literacy of Indian men and women over the first few generations of contact and explores the degree to which literacy provided Indians with the means to serve their communities, reinvent themselves, and challenge missionaries’ expectations.

scholarly journals Incidence of diabetes in South Asian young adults compared to Pima Indians

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. e001988
Author(s):  
K M Venkat Narayan ◽  
Dimple Kondal ◽  
Sayuko Kobes ◽  
Lisa R Staimez ◽  
Deepa Mohan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Insulin Resistance ◽  
Insulin Secretion ◽  
South Asians ◽  
Diabetes Incidence ◽  
Pima Indians ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
History Of ◽  
Indian Men ◽  
Design And Methods

IntroductionSouth Asians (SA) and Pima Indians have high prevalence of diabetes but differ markedly in body size. We hypothesize that young SA will have higher diabetes incidence than Pima Indians at comparable body mass index (BMI) levels.Research design and methodsWe used prospective cohort data to estimate age-specific, sex, and BMI-specific diabetes incidence in SA aged 20–44 years living in India and Pakistan from the Center for Cardiometabolic Risk Reduction in South Asia Study (n=6676), and compared with Pima Indians, from Pima Indian Study (n=1852).ResultsAt baseline, SA were considerably less obese than Pima Indians (BMI (kg/m2): 24.4 vs 33.8; waist circumference (cm): 82.5 vs 107.0). Age-standardized diabetes incidence (cases/1000 person-years, 95% CI) was lower in SA than in Pima Indians (men: 14.2, 12.2–16.2 vs 37.3, 31.8–42.8; women: 14.8, 13.0–16.5 vs 46.1, 41.2–51.1). Risk of incident diabetes among 20–24-year-old Pima men and women was six times (relative risk (RR), 95% CI: 6.04, 3.30 to 12.0) and seven times (RR, 95% CI: 7.64, 3.73 to 18.2) higher as compared with SA men and women, respectively. In those with BMI <25 kg/m2, however, the risk of diabetes was over five times in SA men than in Pima Indian men. Among those with BMI ≥30 kg/m2, diabetes incidence in SA men was nearly as high as in Pima men. SA and Pima Indians had similar magnitude of association between age, sex, BMI, and insulin secretion with diabetes. The effect of family history was larger in SA, whereas that of insulin resistance was larger in Pima IndiansConclusionsIn the background of relatively low insulin resistance, higher diabetes incidence in SA is driven by poor insulin secretion in SA men. The findings call for research to improve insulin secretion in early natural history of diabetes.

Effect of Caralluma Fimbriata extract on appetite, food intake and anthropometry in adult Indian men and women

Appetite ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 338-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Kuriyan ◽  
Tony Raj ◽  
S.K. Srinivas ◽  
Mario Vaz ◽  
R. Rajendran ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Intake ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Indian Men

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ally McBeal and Arranged Marriages: Globalization on the Ground in India

Contexts ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 12-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Dernéa
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Consumer Goods ◽  
Media Images ◽  
Arranged Marriages ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Economic Opportunities ◽  
Self Image ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Indian Men ◽  
Western Media

After a decade of frenzied globalization, the rich of India welcome consumer goods and experiment with new arrangements between men and women. But because the economic opportunities of middle-class Indian men have not expanded, most of them merely welcome Western media images that reinforce their power and masculine self-image.

A Sentimental Journey: Mapping the Interior Frontier of Japanese Settlers in Colonial Korea

2011 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 706-729 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Uchida
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
School Life ◽  
Colonial Korea ◽  
Japanese Men ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The World ◽  
Young Offspring

This article explores the role of affect and sentiment in shaping cross-cultural encounters in late colonial Korea, as seen and experienced through the eyes of Japanese men and women who grew up in Seoul. By interweaving the oral and written testimonies of former settlers who came of age on the peninsula between the late 1920s and the end of colonial rule in 1945, the paper attempts to reconstruct their emotional journey into adulthood as young offspring of empire: specifically, how they apprehended colonialism, what they felt when encountering different segments of the Korean population, and in what ways their understanding of the world and themselves changed as a result of these interactions. Focusing on the intimate and everyday zones of contact in family and school life, this study more broadly offers a way to understand colonialism without reducing complex local interactions to abstract mechanisms of capital and bureaucratic rule.

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