Pressing Issues of Inequality and American Indian Communities

ISBN-13: 9780789006639 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 114 str.

Elizabeth A. Segal; Keith M. Kilty

Opis

Aimed primarily at social service providers to American Indians, eight essays convey how historical inequality shapes indigenous experience of current issues: welfare reform, economic development through gaming, domestic violence, barriers to health care, and the need to interpret minority narratives from a strength as vs. deficit view. Co- publish

Spis treści

Contents Preface

• The Implications of Welfare Reform for American Indian Families and Communities
• The Impact of Indian Gaming on Economic Development
• Domestic Violence Among the Navajo: A Legacy of Colonization
• The Health of Alaska Native Women: Significant Problems, Emerging Solutions
• Harnessing the Positive Power of Language: American Indian Women, A Case Example
• Thoughts on Poverty and Inequality
• Injustice Experienced
• Ascending Poverty and Inequality in Native America: An Alternative Perspective
• Weaving My Way: The Cultural Construction of Writing in Higher Education
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

O autorze

Keith Kilty