Suicide among Native Americans: Further Tribal Data and Considerations

1984 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. MC Intosh
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Prevention Programs ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Suicide Methods ◽  
Alcohol Involvement ◽  
Group Heterogeneity ◽  
Native American Tribes ◽  
Official Sources

This is an updating of an earlier publication on tribal differences in Native American suicidal behavior. Similarities among these studies are noted, including data sources, the concentration of suicide among the young, intratribal group heterogeneity with respect to suicide, suicide methods employed, and alcohol involvement. Most investigations have relied heavily on single official sources for their data. The implications of obtaining figures from official agencies are explored, particularly with respect to Native American tribes and reservations. Neglected areas of study are noted along with the need for further investigation to facilitate prevention programs.

Algonquian Diasporas

Memory Lands ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine M. DeLucia
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
New England ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Community Members ◽  
King Philip's War ◽  
Native Communities ◽  
History Of ◽  
Native American Tribes

This chapter examines how King Philip’s War gave rise to a significant but often ignored or misperceived history of bondage, enslavement, and diaspora that took Native Americans far from their northeast homelands, and subjected them to a range of brutal conditions across an Atlantic World. It focuses on Algonquians’ transits into captivity as a consequence of the war, and historicizes this process within longer trajectories of European subjugation of Indigenous populations for labor. The chapter examines how Algonquian individuals and families were forcibly placed into New England colonial as well as Native communities at the war’s conclusion, and how others were transported out of the region for sale across the Atlantic World. The case of King Philip’s wife and son is especially complex, and the chapter considers how traditions around their purported sale into slavery in Bermuda interact with challenging racial politics and archival traces. Modern-day “reconnection” events have linked St. David’s Island community members in Bermuda to Native American tribes in New England. The chapter also reflects on wider dimensions of this Algonquian diaspora, which likely brought Natives to the Caribbean, Azores, and Tangier in North Africa, and propelled Native migrants/refugees into Wabanaki homelands.

Reconstructing the Past

2020 ◽  
pp. 94-122
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Weiss ◽  
James W. Springer
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
North America ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Population Size ◽  
The Past ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Native American Tribes ◽  
Answering Questions

Weiss and Springer summarize the bioarchaeological research that has challenged previously held stereotypes of Native Americans, answering questions about population size in North America prior to Columbus’s arrival; social structure of pre-contact Native Americans; violence rates in Native American tribes both before and after Columbus’s arrival; Native Americans health and diseases, such as tuberculosis and syphilis, before and after contact with Europeans; Native American diet throughout time; and Native Americans’ relationship with their environment.

Targeted Youth Suicide Prevention Programs

2017 ◽  
pp. 507-514
Author(s):  
Jill Harkavy-Friedman ◽  
Herbert Hendin
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Juvenile Justice System ◽  
Prevention Programs ◽  
Lgbt Youth ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Suicide Prevention Programs

This chapter reviews examples of selective suicide prevention programs that have been developed for adolescents identified, or presumed, to be at increased risk for suicidal behavior. Although the youth targeted by such programs are considered to be particularly vulnerable to suicide, in most cases they had not yet exhibited specific signs of suicidal ideation and behavior. Discussed here are programs for five specific youth populations, each of which has shown elevated rates of suicidal behavior: Native American youth, youth with recent exposure to a suicide in the school or community, youth who have access to firearms in the home, youth who have been detained in the juvenile justice system, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth. Relatively few intervention programs for these populations have been developed to date. This chapter describes programs developed for each group, gives examples, and discusses the assumptions under which these programs operate.

Law and Identity: Negotiating Meaning in the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

1997 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morris A. Fred
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Professional Identities ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Museum Professionals ◽  
Native American Tribes ◽  
American Society ◽  
Two Sides ◽  
Implementation Stage

AbstractThe enactment of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) in 1990 represented the culmination of a long process of negotiation and ultimate compromise between representatives of Native American tribes and American museums. This paper focuses on the initial implementation stage of NAGPRA. That stage reveals that interaction between the two sides has entailed (and continues to entail) negotiations not only concerning the disposition of specific Native American cultural objects but also equally important concerning the professional identities of Native Americans and museum professionals, respectively. Viewed in this way, NAGPRA's post-enactment process is seen to illustrate the various functions of law (both symbolic and concrete) in maintaining the social and ideological dialectic of American society.

scholarly journals Entangled Histories of Assimilation: Dillon S. Myer and the Relocation of Japanese Americans and Native Americans (1942–1953)

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-48
Author(s):  
Saara Kekki
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
Japanese Americans ◽  
White American ◽  
War Relocation Authority ◽  
Native American Tribes ◽  
Comprehensive Comparison ◽  
American Racism

Dillon S. Myer (1891–1982) has been framed as the lone villain in incarcerating and dispersing the Japanese Americans during WWII (as director of the War Relocation Authority) and terminating and relocating Native American tribes in the 1950s (as Commissioner of Indian Affairs). This view is almost solely based on the 1987 biography Keeper of Concentration Camps: Dillon S. Myer and American Racism by Richard Drinnon. Little more has been written about Myer and his views, and a comprehensive comparison of the programs is yet to be published. This article compares the aims of the assimilation and relocation policies, especially through Myer’s public speeches. They paint a picture of a bureaucrat who was committed to his job, who held strongly onto the ideals of Americanization and assimilation, and who saw “mainstream” white American culture as something for all to strive after, but who was hardly an utter racist.

scholarly journals Self-Identity in Louise Erdrich’s ‘The Antelope Wife: A Novel’ – A Critical Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
B Sridevi
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Native American Tribes ◽  
Different Cultures

Among the different cultures and traditional practices that are followed in and around the world, the Native Americans are following distinct cultural practices among their clans. Among the Native American tribes, the ‘Ojibwe’ group is a special clan. This particular clan has fought and acquired freedom from the European settlers. ‘Ojibwe’ ancestors have notable characteristics that are followed by generation after generation. This study analyses the struggle in emphasizing the identity of the ‘Ojibwe’ tribal people in the novel ‘The Antelope Wife’ .Through an innovative story- telling  method, the novelist tries to create an identity for them and reclaim their cultural identity. The novelist has used literature as a tool for studying about the indigenous past, family ties, tradition and culture in the novel. Moreover, the novelist strongly stresses upon the importance of family in one’s life. According to ‘Ojibwe’ people, an individual’s life is constructed or marred if he is stranded from his family. This study focuses on how myth, imagination, ancestral values and heritage are intertwined in establishing ‘Ojibwe’ culture.

Native American sports mascots activate negative stereotypes about contemporary Native Americans

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Focella ◽  
Jessica Whitehead ◽  
Jeff Stone ◽  
Stephanie Fryberg ◽  
Rebecca Covarrubias
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Negative Stereotypes

Native Americans and the Third World Strike at UC Berkeley

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-39
Author(s):  
LaNada War Jack
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Third World ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The University

The author reflects on her personal experience as a Native American at UC Berkeley in the 1960s as well as on her activism and important leadership roles in the 1969 Third World Liberation Front student strike, which had as its goal the creation of an interdisciplinary Third World College at the university.

Indian Genocide – A Study Through The Works of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Poonam Chourey
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
South Dakota ◽  
Native People ◽  
The South ◽  
The People ◽  
Freedom Fighters ◽  
Purpose Of Business ◽  
Wounded Knee ◽  
Shed Light

The research expounded the turmoil, uproar, anguish, pain, and agony faced by native Indians and Native Americans in the South Dakota region.  To explain the grief, pain and lamentation, this research studies the works of Elizabeth Cook-Lyn.  She laments for the people who died and also survived in the Wounded Knee Massacre.  The people at that time went through huge exploitation and tolerated the cruelty of American Federal government. This research brings out the unchangeable scenario of the Native Americans and Native Indians.  Mr. Padmanaban shed light on the works of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn who was activist.  Mr. Padmanaban is very influenced with Elizabeth Cook-Lynn’s thoughts and works. She hails from Sioux Community, a Native American.  She was an outstanding and exceptional scholar.  She experienced the agony and pain faced by the native people.  The researcher, Mr. Padmanaban is concerned the sufferings, agony, pain faced by the South Dakota people at that time.  The researcher also is acknowledging the Indian freedom fighters who got India independence after over 200 years of sufferings.  The foreign nationals entered our country with the sole purpose of business.  Slowly and steadily the took over the reign of the country and ruled us for years, made all of us suffer a lot.

scholarly journals Development of a Genetics Education Workshop Curriculum for Native American College and University Students

Genetics ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 158 (3) ◽  
pp. 941-948
Author(s):  
Linda Burhansstipanov ◽  
Lynne Bemis ◽  
Mark Dignan ◽  
Frank Dukepoo
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
University Students ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Genetic Research ◽  
Native American Students ◽  
College And University ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
National Human ◽  
Education Workshop

Abstract The long-term goal of Genetic Education for Native Americans (GENA), a project funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), is to provide a balance of scientific and cultural information about genetics and genetic research to Native Americans and thereby to improve informed decision making. The project provides culturally sensitive education about genetic research to Native American medical students and college and university students. Curriculum development included focus groups, extensive review of available curricula, and collection of information about career opportunities in genetics. Special attention was focused on genetic research to identify key concepts, instructional methods, and issues that are potentially troublesome or sensitive for Native Americans. Content on genetic research and careers in genetics was adapted from a wide variety of sources for use in the curriculum. The resulting GENA curriculum is based on 24 objectives arranged into modules customized for selected science-related conference participants. The curriculum was pretested with Native American students, medical and general university, health care professionals, and basic scientists. Implementation of the curriculum is ongoing. This article describes the development and pretesting of the genetics curriculum for the project with the expectation that the curriculum will be useful for genetics educators working in diverse settings.

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