This article presents the enigma of how a small tribe might be able to retain cultural identity in the midst of rapid and extremely destructive loss of environment and traditional subsistence ways. The case of the Coeur d’Alene Tribe of Northern Idaho is presented as a contemporary example of the understanding of why traditional foods are important to cultural identity. Issues of worldview, religious consciousness and tribal sovereignty are addressed, as well as personal insights from contemporary tribal members. Integral to this analysis is the understanding of how language forms a schematic reality that connects the present to the past. This analysis demonstrates how the adaptation of Western religious imagery is synchronized to an Indige...
Food security is increasingly threatened in agrarian societies as environmental change has disrupted...
In the U.S., Indigenous communities often suffer poor health at greater rates than non-Native popula...
When white explorers encountered them in their Wisconsin homeland, the Kickapoo Indians lived in sep...
The text that follows is a narrative of reminiscences in the Shoshone language by Josephine Thorpe. ...
Indian people honor and retain their traditional culture through powwows, religious practices, song ...
85 pages. A thesis presented to the Department of Anthropology and the Clark Honors College of the U...
We are Schitsu'umsh - Coeur d'Alene Indians. From our perspective what does it mean today to be a S...
Walking Among The Birds of Fire: Nehiyaw Beliefs Concerning Death, Mourning and Feasting with the De...
Thesis (Ph.D.), Anthropology, Washington State UniversityThe purpose of this study is to document th...
Today Native Americans have higher rates of diet-related illness and mortalities than any other raci...
Climate change leading to a drastic decline in caribou populations has prompted strict hunting regul...
Prior to colonization the Syilx Okanagan people were healthy and strong, by honouring reciprocal rel...
Despite growing interest in Indigenous health, the lack of end-of-life (EOL) research about the Sámi...
In northwestern North America, as in other regions of the world, Indigenous peoples have developed r...
abstract: The Kootenai River landscape of southwestern British Columbia, northwestern Montana and th...
Food security is increasingly threatened in agrarian societies as environmental change has disrupted...
In the U.S., Indigenous communities often suffer poor health at greater rates than non-Native popula...
When white explorers encountered them in their Wisconsin homeland, the Kickapoo Indians lived in sep...
The text that follows is a narrative of reminiscences in the Shoshone language by Josephine Thorpe. ...
Indian people honor and retain their traditional culture through powwows, religious practices, song ...
85 pages. A thesis presented to the Department of Anthropology and the Clark Honors College of the U...
We are Schitsu'umsh - Coeur d'Alene Indians. From our perspective what does it mean today to be a S...
Walking Among The Birds of Fire: Nehiyaw Beliefs Concerning Death, Mourning and Feasting with the De...
Thesis (Ph.D.), Anthropology, Washington State UniversityThe purpose of this study is to document th...
Today Native Americans have higher rates of diet-related illness and mortalities than any other raci...
Climate change leading to a drastic decline in caribou populations has prompted strict hunting regul...
Prior to colonization the Syilx Okanagan people were healthy and strong, by honouring reciprocal rel...
Despite growing interest in Indigenous health, the lack of end-of-life (EOL) research about the Sámi...
In northwestern North America, as in other regions of the world, Indigenous peoples have developed r...
abstract: The Kootenai River landscape of southwestern British Columbia, northwestern Montana and th...
Food security is increasingly threatened in agrarian societies as environmental change has disrupted...
In the U.S., Indigenous communities often suffer poor health at greater rates than non-Native popula...
When white explorers encountered them in their Wisconsin homeland, the Kickapoo Indians lived in sep...