Social Support and Physical Activity Among American Indians in Oklahoma: Results From a Community-based Participatory Research Study: PASS Among American Indians in OklahomaAmerican IndianNative Americanphysical
Walker, & Silk-Walker, 1993). Further, in the late 1880s, the government established the Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians specifically for American Indians because of the belief that they had “unique mental afflictions” (Grandbois
(1985): Prevalence of ALDH1 isoenzyme among American Indians in Oklahoma. Jpn J Alcohol Stud Drug Depend 20: 359–366 CAS Google Scholar Download references Acknowledgements This work was presented in part at the 1997 Research Society for Alcoholism meeting and was supported in part by the ...
Methods: Leukocyte telomere length (LTL) was measured by quantitative PCR in 3,577 American Indians in the Strong Heart Study, a population-based study of CVD and its risk factors in 13 tribes in Arizona, North/South Dakota, and Oklahoma. LS7 metrics include 3 health factors (blood p...
She had been sterilized when she was 20 at the Indian Health Service hospital in Claremont, Oklahoma. It was discoverd that 75 percent of the Claremont sterilizations were non-therapeutic, that women American Indians were being prompted to sign sterilization forms they didn’t understand, that ...
Indians, AMERICAN.—GENERAL.—When Columbus landed on the island of San Salvador in 1492 he was welcomed by a brown-skinned people whose physical appearance confirmed him in his opinion that he had at last reached India, and whom, therefore, he called Indios, Indians, a name which, however...
DESIGN: The Strong Heart Study assesses the prevalence of CHD and its risk factors in American Indians in Arizona, Oklahoma and South/North Dakota. Participants underwent a physical examination and an electrocardiogram; anthropometric and blood pressure measurements were taken, as were measurements of ...
Oklahoma Vity, OK: University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Google Scholar Brown, A., & Silva, T. (2011, July). American Indians with disabilities outreach manual. Disability Services & Legal Center, Native American Independent Living Services Project. Retrieved from http://disabilityservice...
Indians, North AmericanAcculturationThe goal of this study was to evaluate the relationship between culture and attitudes about cervical cancer screening among young American Indian women living and working in northeast Oklahoma. A cohort of 199 American Indian women, ages 18-40, were surveyed to ...
We did handle some religious items. The peyote religion got to be very major among the people out here. It had been very popular in Oklahoma, and that’s the Native Church of North America, which is an incorporated church. And it really caught on with the Navajos. It just mushroomed ov...