HOMICIDE AND NATIVE AMERICANS

Native Americans: traditional healing.

There are an estimated 4.1 million people who are classified as American Indian and Alaska Native alone or in combination with one or more other races. This racial group composes 1.5% of the total U.S. population. The leading causes of illness and death among American Indians are heart disease, cancer, unintentional injuries (accidents), diabetes, and stroke. American Indians also have a high p...

Wealth of Immigrant and Native-born Americans*

This study examines immigrant-native differences in wealth. It improves upon past research by contrasting immigrant-native differences against racial-ethnic differences and by operationalizing spatial segregation and spatial mismatch. Drawing on theories on wealth and theories on immigration, it hypothesizes a discounted positive effect of education and a weaker detrimental effect of spatial se...

patterns and variations in native and non-native interlanguage pragmatic rating: effects of rater training, intercultural proficiency, and self-assessment

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

Exploring pain processing differences in Native Americans.

OBJECTIVE Several chronic pain conditions are more prevalent in Native Americans than in any other group in the United States; however, little has been done to identify factors contributing to this disparity. The study presented here was designed to examine whether there were pain processing differences in Native Americans relative to non-Hispanic White controls. METHODS Participants were hea...

Making research trustworthy for native americans.