scholarly journals Evaluation of a health sciences internship for Latino and Native American library students

2017 ◽  
Vol 104 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alla Keselman, PhD, MA ◽  
Sanjana Quasem, BS ◽  
Janice E. Kelly, MLS ◽  
Gale A. Dutcher, MS, MLS, AHIP
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Qualitative Evaluation ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Library Science ◽  
Graduate Level ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Native American Students ◽  
American Library ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
American Students

Purpose: This paper presents a qualitative evaluation of a graduate-level internship for Latino and Native American library science students or students who are interested in serving those populations.Methods: The authors analyzed semi-structured interviews with thirteen internship program graduates or participants.Results: The analysis suggests that the program increased participants’ interest in health sciences librarianship and led to improved career opportunities, both in health sciences libraries and other libraries with health information programming. It also highlights specific factors that are likely to contribute to the strength of career pipeline programs aiming to bring Latino and Native American students and students who are interested in serving those communities into health librarianship.Conclusions: Exposing graduate-level interns to a broad range of health sciences librarianship tasks, including outreach to Latino and Native American communities and formal mentorship, is likely to maximize interns’ interests in both health sciences librarianship and service to these communities.

What the Dominant Society Can't Give Me: Perceptions of Native American Elders Teaching Native Traditions

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Drywater-Whitekiller
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Treatment Programs ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Native American Students ◽  
American Students ◽  
Dominant Society ◽  
Area Of Concern ◽  
Insight Into

An area of concern in using elders in Native American prevention and treatment programs is that many younger tribal members no longer respect and seek out elders to learn the traditions. The purpose of this study is to gain insight into the process of enculturation via the teachings of Native elders through the perceptions of Native American college students. A total of nineteen Native American students were interviewed in their last year of undergraduate studies. The methods of data collection included primary data collection in the form of one-on-one extended, structured interviews composed of open-ended questions. The results indicated Native grandparents were viewed by these participants as being a vital connection to Native traditions and identity. Comparative research can explore the perceptions of Native grandparents in their motivations to teach traditions.

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.

Boarding School Poetry, Carlisle Indian Industrial School, and the Demands of Americanization Poetics and Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

2018 ◽  
pp. 99-143
Author(s):  
Cristina Stanciu
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Native American ◽  
Original Poetry ◽  
School Personnel ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Native American Students ◽  
American Students ◽  
Carlisle Indian Industrial School ◽  
Industrial School

This chapter focuses on the under-examined corpus of Carlisle poetry, viewing it as a vital archive for theorizing the role of the American Indian intellectual tradition in negotiating Americanization discourses at the turn of the twentieth century. Materials published in newspapers and magazines at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania (1879–1918) include “Carlisle poetry,” which encompasses original poetry by Native American students, reprints of poems by Indian authors, poems by school personnel, and poems by well-known American authors. This poetry, along with the letters and articles published in Carlisle newspapers and magazines, is complicit with the ideological underpinnings of the institution’s ambitious goals of “making” Indian students into Americans, even as elements of this literature critique the Americanization that Carlisle boarding school demanded of its students.

What Is It Like to Be a Minority Student at a Predominantly White Institution?

2021 ◽  
pp. 191-209
Author(s):  
Lucila T. Rudge
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Predominantly White ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Campus Climate ◽  
Minority Student ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Predominantly White Institution ◽  
Native American Students ◽  
American Students ◽  
White Institution

This study examines the differences in experiences and perceptions of campus climate of 38 minority students enrolled in a predominantly white institution (PWI). African American students, Native American students, gender and sexually diverse students, students with disabilities, Latinx students, and international students participated in the study. About half of the participants reported negative experiences with racism and discrimination on campus whereas the other half reported the opposite. Attribution to discrimination theory informed the theoretical framework of this study and the data analysis. Policy recommendations to improve the climate of diversity on university campus are provided.

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