For Native American living on reservations, utilizing modern conveniences like refrigerators can be a real challenge. Well over ten percent of homes on reservations have no electricity, well above the national average of only one percent. Even worse, on the remote Navajo reservation a staggering 40 percent of homes lack electricity. This means that Native [...]
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Smoking Cessation Rates Set To Improve Amongst Native Americans
There have been a number of studies carried out over the last couple of decades that have uncovered Native Americans as having very high smoking rates, much more than any other ethnic groups within the United States. A recent study has revealed 24.3% of Americans continue to smoke whilst a massive 30-40% of Native Americans [...]
Native American Approaches To Health and Healing
There is much to learn from Native American approaches to health and well-being. Underpinning much of the thinking is the incorporation of both mind and body techniques in a holistic approach to healing. Rather than simply addressing the specific area that is affected, or the specific, localized symptom of a disease, Native American approaches to [...]
Grants For American Natives
There happen to be an abundant quantity of american natives grants available for registered American Indian tribal members as well as Alaskan as well as Hawaiian natives. There are Native American grants for learning, housing, looking after senior tribal members, cultural revival, environmental protection, as well as tribal economic progression according the sites like Lån. [...]
Education on the Ute Indians
To better understand the Native American legal and political nature lets first look at some history. In this article we will be looking at the Ute Indians who main location was in the State of Utah. Like most other groups they are facing the political fights that many other tribes face. However, it was not [...]
Inequality In Employment And Pay Rate Prevails
One of the greatest and most crucial socioeconomic differences that must be faced by our Government and business sector alike is the drastic shortfall between the average wages paid to native Americans compared with white employees. The lack of research into the racial wage gap concerning American Indians is an issue in an of itself, [...]
Why the Census Matters to Native American Indians.
American Indians were the native occupants of the ‘Americas’ before European colonisation occurred in the 15th Century. As can be imagined, this had major effects on the country and the American Indian inhabitants which resulted in political, ethnic and social disruption, including acts of extreme violence and large scale decline of indigenous populations. Aside [...]
Getting The American Indian History Straight
Throughout the twentieth century American Indians have been dealt with as though still living in the nineteenth century, as if American Indian societies are resistant to the change and evolution within communities all over the world. Now as we near the twenty-first century there is a growing awareness that almost an entire century of knowledge [...]
