• In turn, we will also actualize the agency of these communities by analyzing their contributions to the metropoles of North America, highlighting both Indigenous manifestations of urbanism and the representations of Native persons and communities thriving amid the urban sprawl of colonial forces. (evergreen.edu)
  • The sport of lacrosse comes from the Haudenosaunee , but many Indigenous nations across North America have their own lacrosse traditions. (wqln.org)
  • The award identifies and honors the very best writing and illustrations by Native Americans and Indigenous peoples of North America. (readingrockets.org)
  • Introduction to Native American and Indigenous Studies is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the many components that combine to create the contemporary American Indian and Indigenous experiences across North America, with a focus within the United States. (iupui.edu)
  • This course is an introduction to the historic and contemporary perspectives on the social, political, and cultural issues of the Indigenous Peoples of North America. (iupui.edu)
  • Browse our collection of inspired creations from Indigenous North America at birchbarknativearts.com. (birchbarkbooks.com)
  • MARTIN: The proclamation walks a line - still acknowledging Columbus Day and the contribution of Italian Americans in shaping this country, but in it, President Biden also recognizes the atrocities committed against Native people by Americans of European descent, specifically as the proclamation describes a, quote, "centuries-long campaign of violence, displacement, assimilation and terror. (wvtf.org)
  • MARTIN: Faircloth says no matter how you decide to mark this holiday, it's important to take some time to celebrate the past and present lives of Native Americans. (wvtf.org)
  • The origin story of America's Thanksgiving holiday imagines the pilgrims surviving harsh winters because of friendly Native Americans who taught them how to farm. (wvtf.org)
  • Washington, DC - Thousands of Native Americans have rallied in the US capital to protest against the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline and raise awareness of indigenous rights. (aljazeera.com)
  • Until recently, they maintained a protest camp near the construction zone for nearly a year that drew Native Americans from hundreds of tribes, bringing attention to the indigenous rights movement. (aljazeera.com)
  • Through readings, lectures, discussion, multi-media presentations, critical thinking assignments and reflection exercises, students will be exposed to the many unique challenges faced by contemporary Native Americans. (iupui.edu)
  • A primary objective of this course is to examine the structural and disciplinary constraints systemically placed on Native Americans and Indigenous cultures from a Native American perspective and students will examine identity, sovereignty, Indian-White relations, federal Indian law and policy, tribal government, art, literature, and film from a Native American perspective. (iupui.edu)
  • Still, some NAJA members have raised concerns that if the association globalizes, its focus on issues particular to Native Americans might be lost. (news10.com)
  • Native Americans have a long tradition of storytelling. (readingrockets.org)
  • President Biden issued a proclamation on Friday to observe Monday, Oct. 9, as a day to honor Native Americans, their "resilience, strength, and perseverance" and "determination to preserve cultures, identities, and ways of life," even as they have faced "violence and devastation," he said. (kut.org)
  • to tell a more positive and more accurate tale of Native Americans by replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples' Day. (kut.org)
  • Native Americans have long criticized the inaccuracies and harmful narratives of Columbus' legacy that credited him with his "discovery" of the Americas when Indigenous people were there first. (kut.org)
  • According to the Pew Research Center , 17 states and the District of Columbia now have holidays honoring Native Americans. (kut.org)
  • Native Americans have borne the brunt of the work to make that happen. (kut.org)
  • What might seem to some like a simple name change can lead to real social progress for Indigenous Americans, said Van Heuvelen. (kut.org)
  • She actively recruited four Native Americans to run for leadership roles within the state party in 2019, two were successfully elected. (netrootsnation.org)
  • For example, captivity narratives written before and during Indian removal, though narrated by Europeans or Euro-Americans, reveal non-utopian ways in which "the South" works as Native ground. (southernspaces.org)
  • It beckons us to amplify the voices and stories of these communities that have been historically silenced in the U.S. It also calls us as Christians to attend to Indigenous Americans' struggles for liberation and to strive for justice and peace with and for Indigenous Americans and Alaska Natives. (buildfaith.org)
  • The idea was originally introduced in the early 20th century by pioneering Native Americans like Seneca Indian Arthur C. Parker, then-director of the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Rochester, NY, and Red Fox James, a Blackfoot Indian. (sjsu.edu)
  • Native American Heritage Month is a time when Native Americans may finally see ourselves and our diverse cultures represented righteously in the media and in the places we work and live. (sjsu.edu)
  • The history of Native Americans after the arrival of the pilgrims in 1620 is one of disenfranchisement, genocide, and forced migration. (lu.se)
  • In 2009, the United States Federal Government issued an "acknowledgement and apology," acknowledging a "long history of official depredations and ill-conceived policies" in its dealings with Native Americans (Congress.gov). (lu.se)
  • The publication of a text so carefully constructed with legally non-binding terms and saturated with use of the passive voice was, to many Native Americans, unsurprising in the context of dealings between Native American tribes and the Federal Government. (lu.se)
  • The Native American genome typically exhibits long stretches of homozygosity, and Latin Americans are highly heterogeneous regarding the individual burden of homozygosity, the proportion and the type of Native American ancestry. (bvsalud.org)
  • Type 2 diabetes was probably uncommon in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations before the 1940s. (cdc.gov)
  • Major disparities in rates of iGAS exist between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations of Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, but much less is understood about iGAS among AI/AN in the United States. (cdc.gov)
  • We highlight the poor correlation between the substantial effect of iGAS among Indigenous persons in industrialized countries and the current understanding of factors that influence iGAS disease in these populations. (cdc.gov)
  • Some of the highest rates of iGAS occur in Indigenous populations within industrialized countries ( 5 ), most likely as a consequence of health disparities between general populations and marginalized peoples, in addition to a poorly understood host-pathogen relationship. (cdc.gov)
  • In the United States, American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) suffer from high rates of iGAS, but epidemiologic and clinical data on GAS among these Indigenous populations is more sparse than it is in other industrialized nations ( 6 ). (cdc.gov)
  • We highlight discordance between the substantial effect of iGAS on AI/AN and understanding of factors that influence iGAS disease in these vulnerable US populations and in other Indigenous persons. (cdc.gov)
  • SCA3 appears to be more common in certain populations, such as some Indigenous (native) Australian populations. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The populations of these regions are made up of varying proportions of European and indigenous ancestry. (cdc.gov)
  • Not all countries with indigenous or tribal populations systematically include ethnicity as a category in national reporting systems, and few include it in national health surveys and analyses. (who.int)
  • A variety of positive measures are being taken by governments to improve health disparities in their indigenous populations, but few details are available. (who.int)
  • This article discusses suicide among young indigenous people, through the data contained in the Report of Violence Against Indigenous Populations in Brazil ( Relatório de Violência Contra os Povos Indígenas no Brasil ), published anually by the Missionary Indigenous Council ( Conselho Indigenista Missionário - CIMI ). (bvsalud.org)
  • The major indigenous populations in Chile are Aymara-Quechua in the north of the country and the Mapuche-Huilliche in the south. (bvsalud.org)
  • Following on the heels of this gathering, there will be a panel discussion from 2 to 3:30 p.m. on the topic of Developing Partnerships with Indigenous Operators & Communities at the Dena'ina Civic & Convention Center. (anchorage.net)
  • When we discuss Boulder with visitors and our communities, we are discussing Native lands, and we endeavor to do our part to include the stories of the area's first inhabitants. (bouldercoloradousa.com)
  • This land acknowledgement was written to be inclusive and collaborative amongst our Native Communities, Native Students, and UW partners across campus. (uwyo.edu)
  • We recognize, support, and advocate alongside Indigenous individuals and communities who live here now, and with those forcibly removed from their Homelands. (uwyo.edu)
  • In "Indigenous Landscapes: Native Communities and Representation in Urban Centers," we will examine and articulate fundamental aspects of belonging and the formation of communities against the backdrop of urbanism. (evergreen.edu)
  • By reviewing the historical development of urban centers and how Native communities came to be in their midst, this class will specifically observe how changing physical landscapes impact the development and integrity of Native communities both past and present. (evergreen.edu)
  • We will study how the rhetoric of "civilization" and acts of land dispossession furthered colonial agendas to the detriment of Native communities, resulting in forced relocations from reservations and the attempted assimilation of Indigenous persons into modernity marked by urban scenery. (evergreen.edu)
  • And we will see how Native communities enacted survivance in the face of colonial violence to carve out urban spaces for both preservation and reclamation. (evergreen.edu)
  • This includes looking at the presence of Native persons and cultures at the hearts of empires, observing the role of Native communities in activist movements, and capturing the impact of Tribal Nations and organizations on urban centers today. (evergreen.edu)
  • The purpose of the Native Pulse Conversation series is to bring forth the heart, knowledge, and action of Indigenous Communities to the People. (7genfund.org)
  • Indigenous Peoples' Day advocates say the recognition helps correct a "whitewashed" American history that has glorified Europeans like Italian explorer Christopher Columbus who have committed violence against Indigenous communities. (kut.org)
  • It can be a day of reflection of our history in the United States, the role Native people have played in it, the impacts that history has had on native people and communities, and also a day to gain some understanding of the diversity of Indigenous peoples," she said. (kut.org)
  • As long as Native people remain invisible, it's much more easier for people to look past those real issues and those real concerns within those communities. (kut.org)
  • Across the country, Native communities are building political power, and taking their rightful place as elected officials against all odds. (netrootsnation.org)
  • She co-founded two organizations to build power within Native communities - in her local state, the California Native Vote Project and nationally, Advance Native Political Leadership. (netrootsnation.org)
  • As I continued to work with Yakama, other Native American and other underrepresented youth and their parents when I worked for the UW Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity, my passion to pursue social work grew as I learned more about how I wanted to contribute to our communities. (iwri.org)
  • Sweeney also called for continued vigilance to fight drug use in Alaska Native communities. (rcinet.ca)
  • That's a 1978 law aimed at ending the removal of Native American children from their communities. (rcinet.ca)
  • Committed to diversity and inclusion, the University strives to build sustainable relationships with sovereign Native Nations and Indigenous communities through education offerings, partnerships, and community service. (arizona.edu)
  • This year, five students enrolled in the MPS degree program hailing from Indigenous communities around the world, including the Ak-Chin Tribe, American Samoa, the Navajo Nation, and the Gila River Indian Community. (arizona.edu)
  • January 12, 2022 - As a partner with Telus, NCCABC is proud to support the pathway of Reconciliation @TELUS and advocate for transformational change for Indigenous Peoples and communities. (nccabc.ca)
  • November is Native American Heritage Month in the U.S. This month provides an opportunity to learn more about the histories, cultures, and experiences of Indigenous American and Alaska Native communities. (buildfaith.org)
  • We have included the Indigenous nations for authors and illustrators who identify as Indigenous as a way to counter the colonizing legacy of homogenizing and rendering invisible Indigenous identities in the U.S. We hope that these resources may support your congregations in celebrating, learning from, and engaging in justice efforts with Indigenous leaders and communities. (buildfaith.org)
  • But it wasn't until 1990 that President George H.W. Bush approved a joint resolution designating November as a month to recognize the history, heritage and legacy of Native American and Indigenous communities across the country. (sjsu.edu)
  • Because so many Bay Area Tribes are and have been woman-led , I like to use the term rematriation whenever I can, as this is a word that Indigenous communities have chosen. (sjsu.edu)
  • The term rematriation inherently references the care we give and receive from mother earth - where the ancestors will eventually return - as well as the many ways in which Indigenous women and two-spirit people have historically and contemporarily cared for their communities and act as stewards of Indigenous knowledge. (sjsu.edu)
  • Through leadership of indigenous project partners who were formerly farm workers, project partners worked collaboratively to co-create the data collection instruments and protocol, including recruitment efforts, to co-analyze the data, and report results back to the farm worker communities. (cdc.gov)
  • The presentation is an overview of processes used to engage indigenous communities in identifying the priorities for improvement in safety and living conditions for a growing but underserved community in Oregon. (cdc.gov)
  • In remote regions of North American Arctic and Greenland and the Russian Federation, many of these indigenous peoples live in very small, isolated communities. (cdc.gov)
  • Notably, the National Health Program for Indigenous Peoples seeks to improve health coverage for Indigenous Communities through an intercultural lens, aligning with the Law on indigenous policy and support for aboriginal communities that emphasizes the participation and development of indigenous groups while respecting their values. (bvsalud.org)
  • On Sept. 20, 2016, the Alaska Native Heritage Center welcomes indigenous tourism businesses and organizations from around the globe to Anchorage for a special event. (anchorage.net)
  • The gathering is open to all involved or interested in Alaska Native tourism and other indigenous tourism. (anchorage.net)
  • The clear message coming out of a lot of different projects was that there's this sense that the kind of persistent deep inequities that Alaska Native people are facing in fisheries, education, research, governance systems is pronounced. (alaskapublic.org)
  • She is the first Alaska Native to hold the assistant secretary position, but when she took the stage, she gave honors to the late Morris Thompson of Tanana. (rcinet.ca)
  • In 1973, Thompson became the first Alaska Native to head the Bureau of Indian Affairs, before the assistant secretary position was created. (rcinet.ca)
  • But I am committed to finding new ways for the BIA to be engaged in protecting our Alaska Native villages. (rcinet.ca)
  • Indigenous Peoples are increasingly exerting governance and oversight over genomic research with citizens of their nations, raising questions about how best to enforce research regulation between American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian peoples and researchers. (arizona.edu)
  • To help churches lift up Indigenous American and Alaska Native histories and stories this November, we at Building Faith have compiled a list of resources as a starting point for further learning. (buildfaith.org)
  • In Alaska, though, the terminology we use for peoples of indigenous ancestry is Alaska Native. (cdc.gov)
  • Infections caused about half of Alaska Native deaths in 1950, but by 1990 accounted for about only 1.2 percent of deaths. (cdc.gov)
  • The Indigenous people in the heart of the conflict say if the group in Oregon were people of color, there would be no hesitation to label them - like the Canadian government labeled Indigenous people at Oka - 'domestic terrorists. (vice.com)
  • His hope is to help the Klamath Tribes and Modoc Nation work cooperatively through the UNESCO International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-2032 while developing a critical understanding of the political-legal histories that resulted in the outlaw, curtailment of their respective tribal languages. (brown.edu)
  • Several of those bodies were defanged and did little to protect Indigenous peoples' territories during the far-right administration of former President Jair Bolsonaro between 2019 and 2022. (yahoo.com)
  • As a person of mixed-settler and California Native American ancestry, it is often a time when I reflect on the ways colonization has disrupted Indigenous sovereignty. (sjsu.edu)
  • In The Way We Lived , editor Margolin captures the personal histories, songs, and stories of California's Native people. (stanford.edu)
  • Lobo and Talbot offer various histories and perspectives from Indigenous people across the Americas including articles, oral histories, songs, poetry, maps, and original artwork. (stanford.edu)
  • The success of the One Book One Northwestern reading selection led to the formation of the Native American and Indigenous Peoples Steering Group , which worked during the 2016-17 academic year to sustain the momentum and interest in Native and Indigenous people, history and culture. (northwestern.edu)
  • The Boulder area encompasses ancestral homelands of Indigenous people who were here for thousands of years before white settlement. (bouldercoloradousa.com)
  • Visit Boulder acknowledges that the land on which we live, work and recreate today has been inhabited by Indigenous people for more than 13,000 years. (bouldercoloradousa.com)
  • Two other sites in Boulder County offer evidence of early Indigenous people in the area. (bouldercoloradousa.com)
  • They acquired horses from the Spanish around the 1600s and were among the first native people to have horses in significant numbers. (bouldercoloradousa.com)
  • SAO PAULO (AP) - Brazil's government on Monday began removing thousands of non-Indigenous people from two native territories in a move that will affect thousands who live in the heart of the Amazon rainforest . (yahoo.com)
  • It did not say whether or not the expulsion of non-Indigenous people has been entirely peaceful. (yahoo.com)
  • Indigenous groups estimate more than 10,000 non-Indigenous people are living inside the two territories. (yahoo.com)
  • ABIN said as many as 2,500 Indigenous people live in 51 villages within. (yahoo.com)
  • The presence of strangers on Indigenous land threatens the integrity of the Indigenous (people) and causes other damages, such as the destruction of forests," the agency said in its statement. (yahoo.com)
  • Footage obtained by local media and shared on social media in September showed hundreds of non-Indigenous people living in a newly built town with restaurants, bars and churches deep inside the lands of the Parakana. (yahoo.com)
  • Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva began rebuilding environment protection agencies and has so far created eight protected areas for Indigenous people. (yahoo.com)
  • For the first time, these three crucial elements are brought together in a single text for educators to use in their curriculum planning as well as for the general public in their understanding of Indigenous People. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • Starting with an in-depth examination of American Indian Studies, the text chronicles the evolution of Indian Education from the roots of how Native people were educated in the New World to its current presence on the university campus. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • The text progresses to an essential conceptual understanding in discussing Indigenous People: the Native Worldview and Philosophy. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • Two Indigenous people remember the Oka crisis, and have some experience going head-to-head with the Canadian government. (vice.com)
  • The standoff saw Indigenous people fortify their territory, blocking police. (vice.com)
  • It belongs to the native people who live here,' tribal leader Charlotte Rodrique told reporters at a press conference outside the cultural centre near the refuge in early January. (vice.com)
  • The Oka crisis, which profoundly changed the relationship between Indigenous people and the Canadian government, led other First Nations to draw similar lines in the sand. (vice.com)
  • Essentially, we're going back to our roots and trying to create and provide support and resources for Indigenous journalists all across Turtle Island," board member Jourdan Bennett-Begaye said, invoking the term some Indigenous people use to refer to the North American continent. (news10.com)
  • The change also would reflect an evolution in how Indigenous people see themselves. (news10.com)
  • It's part of this larger movement that's happening in Indigenous people, just reclaiming everything that's theirs that should be theirs," Bennett-Begaye said. (news10.com)
  • Indian, for example, is a historical reference used to connote barbarism to justify enslaving Indigenous people during the colonial era - settlers equated it to savagery while seizing more land and federal policies invoked it as a racist concept in the 19th century, Ellis said. (news10.com)
  • When Louise Wolfe's boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people in front of her, she breaks things off and dumps him over e-mail. (epl.org)
  • From cooking to fashion, fine art to fiction, Charleyboy gives us solid proof that Native people are alive and thriving in all walks of life. (indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com)
  • What these changes accomplish, piece by piece, is visibility for Native people in the United States," she said. (kut.org)
  • Until Native people are or are fully seen in our society and in everyday life, we can't accomplish those bigger changes. (kut.org)
  • There's this real lack of Indigenous people, Indigenous values, Indigenous knowledge systems included in how we teach and research and govern fisheries in Alaska. (alaskapublic.org)
  • And as Kat Norris of the Indigenous Action Group points out, First Nations people make up 30 per cent of homeless people in the downtown eastside. (dominionpaper.ca)
  • It is a time when we see increased participation in Native American movements and engagement with Native people, which I hope will last throughout the year. (sjsu.edu)
  • This study aimed to assess the prevalence of ankyloglossia in people of different age groups living in the native Brazilian community of Umutina, in the municipality of Barra do Bugres/Mato Grosso. (bvsalud.org)
  • Despite increasing international attention to the question of indigenous people, accurate information on their number is lacking and knowledge about their health status is incomplete and fragmented. (who.int)
  • Lack of national data on ethnicity, and scarcity of comprehensive research on health risk and disparities in indigenous people in many countries are serious obstacles to establishment of regional and global plans of action on the health of indigenous people. (who.int)
  • Moreover, health research to date has often failed to include indigenous people adequately in the research process. (who.int)
  • To be comprehensive, it should involve indigenous people and incorporate their viewpoint. (who.int)
  • Lack of data also prevents countries from framing effective and meaningful policy in areas relating to the health of indigenous people - a serious issue for countries where indigenous people either represent a high proportion of the population, or have a strong separate ethnic identity. (who.int)
  • None the less, some general patterns related to the health of indigenous people emerge, as indicated in the Annex. (who.int)
  • The sum of data so far indicates that indigenous people die younger, and generally have a lower health status, than other population groups. (who.int)
  • These are: preparation of a WHO working definition of indigenous people, systematic collection of health and population data, and comparative operational health research that will lay the basis for an upward trend in the health of indigenous people. (who.int)
  • Persons having origins in any indigenous people of ALASKA and their descendants. (bvsalud.org)
  • The increase in the number of suicides among young indigenous people has been a concern and rallies consciences and the need to document cases. (bvsalud.org)
  • Biden first issued a proclamation recognizing Indigenous Peoples' Day in 2021. (kut.org)
  • Lisa Charleyboy's Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native American Voices (Annick Press, 2014) is an exceptional anthology of Native and indigenous writing that covers numerous fields. (indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com)
  • Join us to learn more about these efforts, how to center Indigenous voices, and how to be a true ally in Native political power building in the 21st century. (netrootsnation.org)
  • Restorative justice traces its roots to Indigenous traditions worldwide, yet few books in the field present Indigenous voices speaking directly about Native ways of responding to harms. (birchbarkbooks.com)
  • Protesters marched in an Indigenous Peoples Day rally in Boston on Oct. 10, 2020, as part of a demonstration to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day. (kut.org)
  • Nearly 50 different Native American tribes were in and out of Colorado throughout history, according to Ernest House, Jr., a member of the Ute Mountain Ute tribe and former executive director of the Colorado Commission on Indian Affairs. (bouldercoloradousa.com)
  • MARTÍNEZ: There are more than 600 different state and federally recognized Native tribes across the United States. (wvtf.org)
  • We collectively acknowledge that the University of Wyoming occupies the ancestral and traditional lands of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Crow, and Shoshone Indigenous peoples along with other Native tribes who call the Great Basin and Rocky Mountain region home. (uwyo.edu)
  • Treaty violation, however, does not nullify their legality, and Native American tribes to this day still live under the laws and restrictions that have controlled their sovereignty for hundreds of years. (lu.se)
  • FAIRCLOTH: For me, as an Indigenous person, the President's proclamation is critically important in that President Biden noted specifically the sovereignty of Native nations. (wvtf.org)
  • As you complete the minor in Native American Studies, you will develop an intermediate level of knowledge of Native American issues including the culture, history, economic, and political development as well as issues of identity and sovereignty. (iupui.edu)
  • Indigenous is inoffensive, but it also doesn't do any of the kind of distinct sovereignty work, distinct political work, distinct cultural affiliation ″ that other words do, said Elizabeth Ellis, a historian at Princeton University and an enrolled citizen of the Peoria Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma. (news10.com)
  • We report findings related to 1) considerations for Indigenous governance, 2) institutional relationship upholding sovereignty, 3) expectations for research approvals, and 4) agreements enacting Indigenous governance. (arizona.edu)
  • American Indian Studies essential topics, Native Worldview and Philosophy, and Traditional Teaching Methodologies are all important components in understanding the Native Experience. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • Finally tying the Native issues and worldview together are Traditional Teaching Methodologies. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • During the Native American & Indigenous Studies program, I was able to attend trips outside of the classroom such as the Mounds of the Midwest Seminar organized by Charli Champion-Shaw and Dr. Kelly Hayes, which expanded my worldview and further developed incredibly impactful friendships between both students and professors. (iupui.edu)
  • We really try to advocate against including Indigenous knowledge in Western science and more moving to recognize that Western science is its own knowledge system - it's a knowledge system, kind of with European worldview and values, norms, assumptions. (alaskapublic.org)
  • But in the Indigenous worldview, fish are non-human kin. (alaskapublic.org)
  • The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), and its attorneys, the Native American Rights Fund (NARF), have been actively involved in the process of elaborating the Declaration since 1999. (narf.org)
  • Before the 1940s, diabetes was probably uncommon among American Indians/Alaska Natives (AI/AN) ( 1 ). (cdc.gov)
  • 20 years were 2.1 times as likely to have diabetes diagnosed compared with non-Hispanic white adults (15.9% versus 7.6% respectively) ( 5 ).The age-adjusted rate of diagnosed diabetes among AI/AN adults varied by region from 6.0% among Alaska Natives to 24.1% among American Indians in southern Arizona ( 5 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Active surveillance of invasive group A Streptococcus (iGAS) disease indicates that its incidence in the US general population is low, but limited studies show rates for American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) are severalfold higher. (cdc.gov)
  • The Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative is joined this year by the following visiting scholars. (brown.edu)
  • Through the views of Indian scholars, researchers, and educators, a comprehensive look at the Native American Experience evolves. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • A primary goal for students this term is to explore dominant academic and media representation and research practices and compare and contrast those offered by contemporary Native American scholars, artists, and educators. (iupui.edu)
  • Drawing on a decade of Native writing on restorative justice and on community-based, healing responses to conflicts and crimes, this substantive book features forty-five articles from community members, scholars, judges, lawyers, and Elders, most of whom are Indigenous. (birchbarkbooks.com)
  • In this roundtable conversation, three scholars of Indigenous histories in the southeast will discuss their scholarship, while reflecting on the ways that early Indigenous histories bear on the present and future. (societyofearlyamericanists.org)
  • Participants described concerns about different ways of exerting oversight, relationships and agreements between Indigenous Peoples and researchers, and gaps that need to be addressed to strengthen existing governance of genomic data. (arizona.edu)
  • The Indigenous Governance Program, a joint program of the Native Nations Institute (NNI) and Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy Program (IPLP) at the James E. Rogers College of Law, is excited to announce its first-ever cohort of Master of Professional Studies (MPS) in Indigenous Governance students. (arizona.edu)
  • The MPS in Indigenous Governance was launched in the Spring of 2019 as part of the university's Native American Advancement Initiative. (arizona.edu)
  • With the adoption of the Declaration, Indigenous Peoples take their rightful place among the peoples of the world acknowledged as having the right of self determination. (narf.org)
  • Her political activist father instilled in Emma a commitment to the importance of maintaining Indigenous self-determination through cultural continuance. (iwri.org)
  • This new edition builds on the success and research of the first and provides updated and new chapters that cover a wide range of some of the most important issues facing Indigenous peoples today: violence against women, recovery of Indigenous self-determination, racism, misogyny and decolonization. (birchbarkbooks.com)
  • Going beyond the story of America as a country "discovered" by a few brave men in the "New World," Indigenous human rights advocate Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reveals the roles that settler colonialism and policies of American Indian genocide played in forming our national identity. (epl.org)
  • Usage of the word "Indigenous" has soared in recent years, particularly after demonstrations against the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016 forged the largest pan-Indigenous alliance in North American history. (news10.com)
  • The graphic novel award went to Richard Van Camp for Three Feathers (HighWater Press, January 2016), the story of three boys who are given a sense of indigenous justice that proves to be healing and profound for each of them. (indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com)
  • After five years of work at IWRI, she went back to UW-SSW to embark on her five-year Ph.D. program specializing in violence against Native American women, graduating in June 2016. (iwri.org)
  • Mellor Willie, Navajo, is the Co-Founder and Director of 7Gen Leaders, a Native Political Action Committee (PAC) founded in February 2018 that conducts Independent Expenditures to help elect strong and viable candidates to key positions and offices across the country. (netrootsnation.org)
  • LBCC recognizes that Native American and Indigenous students and the many rich cultures collectively embodied within this umbrella term are an integral part of our community, and we value your unique needs. (lbcc.edu)
  • The conversation will highlight and build on their research, which attends to Indigenous women's lives and histories, as reflected in both written documents and material culture, to collective projects of education and care within Indigenous nations, and to the connections between Indigenous pasts and presents. (societyofearlyamericanists.org)
  • Her scholarship and research interests focus on Indigenous human rights, the rights of Indigenous women, sacred places and environmental protection, repatriation, Indigenous entrepreneurship, and Cherokee studies. (brown.edu)
  • I am eager to see the full repatriation of all Native American ancestors and their belongings within the next few years. (sjsu.edu)
  • It is common to see celebrations in states with a relatively large indigenous population, such as Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Pará, Goiás, Rondônia and Amazonas. (wikipedia.org)
  • indigenous population. (bvsalud.org)
  • Suicide is a complex social fact, that occurs in the realm of free will and involves a constellation of factors associated with socio-cultural, environmental and existential conditions that compose the context of each indigenous population where said episodes take place. (bvsalud.org)
  • It is a collection of articles from the Justice As Healing newsletter produced by the Native Law Centre of Canada at the University of Saskatchewan. (birchbarkbooks.com)
  • Project partners include representatives and indigenous-speaking staff from the Oregon Law Center, Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN), Salud Medical Center, Portland State University, and Farm worker Justice. (cdc.gov)
  • From the acclaimed Ojibwe author and professor Anton Treuer comes an essential book of questions and answers for Native and non-Native young readers alike. (epl.org)
  • The book has been heavily reviewed, with Native and generational reviewers recommending it highly for young readers, albeit with a warning about prolific use of the F-bomb. (indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com)
  • Using a community-engaged research approach, we conducted 42 semi-structured interviews with Tribal leaders, clinicians, researchers, policy makers, and Tribal research review board members about their perspectives on ethical issues related to genetics research with Indigenous Peoples in the US. (arizona.edu)
  • Researchers on indigenous issues therefore tend to rely on proxy indicators such as geographic location or language use within a country. (who.int)
  • Diane Glancy was the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner. (indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com)
  • I borrow only my title from Alfred Kazin's 1942 study On Native Grounds , an influential reading of modern American prose in which Kazin never, by "Native," means American Indian writing from any region of the Americas. (southernspaces.org)
  • The date was created by President Getúlio Vargas by a decree in 1943, and recalls the day (April 19) in 1940, in which several indigenous leaderships of the Americas decided to attend the First Inter-American Indian Congress, held in Mexico. (wikipedia.org)
  • But South Dakota became the first state to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples day in 1989, officially celebrating it the following year. (kut.org)
  • In order to advance the preparation of comprehensive plans of action, it is proposed to use the definition contained in ILO Convention 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples (1989) until such time as there is an agreed definition in the United Nations system. (who.int)
  • The Apyterewa territory had the most deforestation of any Indigenous land in Brazil for four years running, according to official data. (yahoo.com)
  • In Brazil, Indigenous Peoples Day (Portuguese: Dia dos Povos Indígenas), observed annually on April 19, recognizes and honours the indigenous peoples of Brazil. (wikipedia.org)
  • Nowadays most part of the cities does not celebrate the date, however it is very common for schoolchildren across Brazil to dress up like Natives and visit Museums to learn more about the first Brazilians. (wikipedia.org)
  • The festival is seen as an opportunity to learn about Brazilian indigenous peoples, since traveling to most tribal areas and reservations in Brazil is restricted and must be authorized by the national foundation FUNAI. (wikipedia.org)
  • Sliver of a Full Moon , by MK Nagle, chronicles the story of the grassroots movement to re-author the Violence Against Women Act, including provisions for Native and Indigenous women. (indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com)
  • That year, the office hired a senior program coordinator for Native American and Indigenous Initiatives to help lead and coordinate the work across the University. (northwestern.edu)
  • An organization of students and faculty associated with the Native American & Indigenous Studies Program that meets twice each month to discuss general disciplinary matters as well as the research projects of the group's individual members. (uwyo.edu)
  • He has been a consultant and parent committee member of the Eastside Native American Education Program for over 35 years. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • Elizabeth Mik' Lindley is one of the students in UAF's Tamamta program, which brings together Indigenous and Western sciences to transform graduate education and research in fisheries and marine sciences. (alaskapublic.org)
  • A program focused on bridging the gap between Indigenous knowledge and Western science is entering its second year at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. (alaskapublic.org)
  • In radically repossessing the very experience and practice of captivity, removing it from its western generic place and casting it as primarily a tribal affair conducted on Native ground, Howe stands with various other contemporary southeastern Native writers in working to repossess homelands that they rearticulate not as "the South" but as Native ground. (southernspaces.org)
  • For example, American Indian literature and criticism that has to do with the South often does without "the South" as an explanatory category, focusing instead on particular southeastern tribal nations or on intellectual paradigms-such as Native American literary separatism-that, for obvious reasons, do not rely on non-Native notions of regionalism. (southernspaces.org)
  • The mission of Native American and Indigenous Affairs (NAIA) is to oversee the implementation of university-wide initiatives related to the inclusion of Native American and Indigenous students, faculty, staff, and alumni. (northwestern.edu)
  • OIDI now oversees the implementation of University-wide initiatives around Native American and Indigenous inclusion. (northwestern.edu)
  • This document responds to the request contained in resolution WHA51.24 to report annually to the Health Assembly on progress on indigenous health initiatives. (who.int)
  • From a pointedly sovereign Native perspective, contemporary Native texts such as Shell Shaker (2001) by LeAnne Howe (Choctaw) reaffirm what various Indians in early captivity narratives say and "say" and do as they work against the impositions of a proto-regional colonial demarcation. (southernspaces.org)
  • Simon was at Oka in 1990 when one Quebec provincial police officer was shot to death, an Indigenous elder died after he was struck in the chest by a boulder thrown by a Canadian protester, and a Mohawk teenager was nearly killed after she was stabbed by a soldier. (vice.com)
  • Specifically, new chapters deal with Indigenous resurgence, feminism amongst the Sami and in Aboriginal Australia, neoliberal restructuring in Oaxaca, Canada's settler racism and sexism, and missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada. (birchbarkbooks.com)
  • The three groups of indigenous aboriginal peoples of Canada. (bvsalud.org)
  • Founded in Canada in 1983, NAJA wants to foster inclusion with Indigenous journalists there as well as in Alaska and Hawaii, since " Native American " is a modern alternative for " American Indian " - referring specifically to the millions of descendants of the original inhabitants of what is now the Lower 48 states. (news10.com)
  • We will explore urban development from both an Indigenous and Western perspective to see distinct characteristics and how these are reflections of cultural values. (evergreen.edu)
  • The winner of the Young Adult Category is a book about the Native perspective on Thanksgiving, a national holiday that is finally undergoing some cultural and historical revisionism, as it becomes a national conflict of conscience. (indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com)
  • In an Indigenous context, the whole nature of what we're studying, how we study it, why we're studying it, might look really different. (alaskapublic.org)
  • More than 100 cities celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day, with many of them having altogether dropped the holiday honoring Columbus to replace it with Indigenous Peoples' Day. (kut.org)
  • The National Indian Festival is held yearly in Bertioga, São Paulo to celebrate the Indigenous People's Day. (wikipedia.org)
  • More broadly, the proposed change aligns with terminology used by the United Nations and many multinational organizations as the group also seeks allies among Indigenous journalists worldwide. (news10.com)
  • In San Juan County, UT, several Native organizations and allies built a coordinated strategy around engaging first-time voters on the Navajo reservation to make history in electing the first ever Navajo-led County commission to help protect the cultural sites and natural beauty of the area. (netrootsnation.org)
  • Written by Indigenous feminists and allies, this book provides a powerful and original intellectual and political contribution demonstrating that feminism has much to offer Indigenous women, and all Indigenous peoples, in their struggles against oppression. (birchbarkbooks.com)
  • No Olympics on stolen Native land" has become the battle cry for Indigenous resistance to the Games -- resistance that has found allies in those angered by what they call the devastating social and environmental implications of the Olympics-- and has drawn its resonance from the fact that much of B.C. remains unceded Indigenous territory. (dominionpaper.ca)
  • Support Indigenous presence in University traditions such as Wildcat Welcome, Commencement, Presidential Inauguration, etc. (northwestern.edu)
  • A similar situation is playing out in Vancouver, according to Angela Sterrit, a secretariat member of the International Indigenous Youth Network (IIYN) and member of the Gitxsan Nation. (dominionpaper.ca)
  • FILE - Women drummers sing as they lead a march during an Indigenous Peoples Day event, Oct. 9, 2017, in Seattle. (news10.com)
  • Ruth served one term as the North Dakota Democratic-Nonpartisan League Secretary (2017), she was the first Native American elected into a leadership role within the state party. (netrootsnation.org)
  • Mellor is a graduate of George Washington University's Graduate School of Political Management (2009) and as an adjunct faculty he has taught the course, "Native Politics and Grassroots Organizing" from 2014-2017. (netrootsnation.org)
  • We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Health to teach undergraduate and graduate public health students and other professionals. (hawaii.edu)
  • Stanford Libraries is highlighting a collection of books by Native and Indigenous authors this month in celebration of Native American Heritage Month. (stanford.edu)
  • The books, both fiction and nonfiction, are part of the Stanford University Libraries' Native American Heritage Month celebration and feature titles by and about Indigenous and Native authors. (stanford.edu)
  • Assistant Interior Secretary for Indian Affairs Tara Sweeney was welcomed back to the Alaska Federation of Natives convention with loud cheers and applause. (rcinet.ca)
  • And so we can sort of do our fisheries and marine work in a different way, really trying to elevate Indigenous knowledge systems that are in Alaska - 14,000-plus years deep, to really be used alongside Western science in these systems. (alaskapublic.org)
  • Firstly, Tommy Pico's Nature Poem will be read alongside a selection of Native American poets. (lu.se)
  • Established in 2012, the New Visions Award encourages writers of color and Indigenous/Native writers to submit their work to a publisher that takes pride in nurturing new talent. (leeandlow.com)
  • The contest is open to writers of color and Indigenous/Native writers who are residents of the United States and at least 18 years old at the time of entry, and who have not previously had a middle grade or young adult novel traditionally published. (leeandlow.com)
  • They were also given awards by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers, which held workshops, hosted readings and celebrated award winners at Returning the Gift 2015, with most events graciously hosted at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque. (indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com)
  • She received the Pathfinder Award, which goes to writers who are pushing the boundaries of indigenous literature. (indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com)
  • Wordcraft Circle awards are dedicated solely to the work and words of Native and indigenous writers and storytellers. (indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com)
  • I hope to supplement but also expand the field of Native Studies, which did not exist in 1942 and in which the vast majority of critical work today (including my own first book) resists regionalism but often homes in on Native writers and texts associated with particular regions, whether the American Southwest, the Pacific Northwest, or the Plains. (southernspaces.org)
  • It is true that Native southern writers often choose to "talk about the South" tacitly, casting aside notions of a bounded southern region or culture area and embracing a sense of home place that they define in their own terms as Native southern ground. (southernspaces.org)
  • Three decades of worldwide effort by Indigenous Peoples resulted in an historic victory in the United Nations General Assembly on September 13, 2007, when that body adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by an overwhelming majority. (narf.org)
  • However, the diversity of Native American poets is considered in the literature. (lu.se)
  • But this point does not adequately explain why Native and Southern Studies are such strangers. (southernspaces.org)
  • We appreciate and are so thankful for our UW campus partners and community for supporting this effort and other Native American efforts across campus that work towards advocating and providing space for our Native community, especially our students and their families. (uwyo.edu)
  • In this section, we wish to honor the incredible accomplishments of three Native students who are connected to IWRI and received Master's or Ph.D. degrees from the UW this year. (iwri.org)
  • She says the nine Indigenous graduate students starting their fellowships this year are from all over Alaska, but they're united by a common goal. (alaskapublic.org)
  • It is our intent that you leave these conversations feeling uplifted and inspired into action by the movements across the Indigenous World. (7genfund.org)
  • The history of Native American Heritage Month mirrors the way many Native American and Indigenous movements have been treated by the U.S. government. (sjsu.edu)
  • This America has been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples, those Indigenous and those not. (epl.org)
  • What does it mean to include Indigenous knowledge and science? (alaskapublic.org)
  • And recognizing that Indigenous knowledge systems are diverse, but equally valid and they're based on different worldviews and values and norms and assumptions. (alaskapublic.org)
  • And so we really try to elevate and recognize Indigenous knowledge systems as their own intact knowledge systems. (alaskapublic.org)
  • So I think some of the really core features in many Indigenous knowledge systems are core values around respect and reciprocity, relationships and even really fundamental assumptions. (alaskapublic.org)
  • And so, if research was done from an Indigenous knowledge system with regard to fish it would be really different by design than a Western project that might think about counting fish, extrapolating the returns of fish. (alaskapublic.org)