OBJECTIVES To describe the food environments experienced by American Indians living on tribal lands in California. METHODS Geocoded statewide food business data were used to define and categorize existing food vendors into healthy, unhealthy, and intermediate composite categories. Distance to and density of each of the composite food vendor categories for tribal lands and nontribal lands were...

Background. Effect of urban environment on the development of DM and its risk factors is studied with an ecological fallacy due to their study designs that formulate the background for the present study. Objective. To study the prevalence of DM and associated lifestyle related risk factors in traditional tribal individuals residing in tribal area and migrating persons of the same tribe to urban...

In the course of conceptual analysis, this paper recognises the contemporary information systems (IS) stakeholder as an integral part of a tribal setting. The paper argues the importance of neo-tribal notions in managing and understanding the stakeholders’ identity, their individual perspectives, their group allegiances, and the impact of tribal behavior on the IS development process. The paper...

Response to public health emergencies on tribal lands poses a unique challenge for state and tribal public health officials. The complexity and intensely situation-specific nature of federal Indian jurisprudence leaves considerable question as to which government entity, state or tribal, has jurisdiction on tribal lands to undertake basic emergency measures such as closure of public spaces, qua...

BACKGROUND Native American tribes, as sovereign nations, are exempt from state tobacco excise taxation, and self-govern on-reservation activity in the USA. Under Federal law, state excise taxes are owed by non-members purchasing tobacco on tribal land, but states are limited in how they enforce or collect these taxes. This study highlights the various policy approaches that states have taken to...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a major genetic disorder among the tribal population. Hence the objective of the present study was to determine the prevalence and frequency of the sickle cell gene in some selected tribal population of the Ghatanji and Kelapur taluka of Yavatmal District (Central India). A total of 1078 tribal individuals were screened for SCD from 17 tribal villages constituting 3...

Anthropometry is the single most portable, systemized technique, universally applicable, inexpensive, and noninvasive method available to assess the proportions, size, and composition of the human body. Maximum oxygen uptake (VO max) is internationally accepted parameter to evaluate the cardiorespiratory fitness. But determination of VO max is restricted within well equipped laboratory because ...

Racial and ethnic minority communities, including American Indian and Alaska Natives, have been disproportionately impacted by environmental pollution and contamination. This includes siting and location of point sources of pollution, legacies of contamination of drinking and recreational water, and mining, military and agricultural impacts. As a result, both quantity and quality of culturally ...

This paper offers an overview of the legal development of tribal gambling operations in California. First this paper explains the general contours of tribal sovereignty, then it discusses the development of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, the present of the legal basis of tribal gaming. Finally, this paper discusses the options the State may have to enforce any type of gaming regulations on t...