Social Issues in Contemporary Native America: Reflections from Turtle Island

252 Pages·2014·2.43 MB·English

by  Hilary N. Weaver

SOCIAL ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY
NATIVE AMERICA
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Social Issues in Contemporary
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Edited by
HILARY N. WEAVER
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Contents
List of Figures vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction 1
PART I POLICY FOUNDATIONS
1 Sovereignty, Dependency, and the Spaces in Between:
An Examination of United States Social Policy and
Native Americans 7
Hilary N. Weaver
2 Legally Entrenched Oppressions: The Undercurrent
of First Nations Peoples’ Experiences with Canada’s
Social Welfare Policies 23
Michael Anthony Hart and Gladys Rowe
PART II SOCIAL WORK: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
3 Social Services and Indigenous Peoples of North America:
Pre-Colonial to Contemporary Times 45
Andrea Tamburro and Paul-René Tamburro
4 A Standpoint View of the Social Work Profession and
Indigenous Peoples in the United States: From the
Profession’s Origins through its First Century 59
Robert E. “Bob” Prue
5 Re(cid:192)ecting Out of the Box: Locating Place and Practice
in the Decolonization of Social Work 77
Diane McEachern
PART III INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ACROSS THE LIFE CYCLE
6 Raising Healthy American Indian Children:
An Indigenous Perspective 93
Priscilla A. Day
vi Social Issues in Contemporary Native America
7 Preserving Native Families, Preserving Native Cultures 113
Nancy Lucero and Marian Bussey
8 ICWA: Legal Mandate for Social Justice and Preservation
of American Indian/Alaska Native Heritage 129
Thalia González and Edwin González-Santin
9 Tradition Keepers: American Indian/Alaska Native Elders 143
Priscilla A. Day
PART IV WELL-BEING AND THE COMMUNITY CONTEXT
10 Violence in the Lives of Native Americans 157
Hilary N. Weaver
11 Indigenous Women and Sexual Assault:
Implications for Intersectionality 169
Roe Bubar
12 Culture is Medicine that Works 187
Lewis Mehl-Madrona and Barbara Mainguy
13 Building Assets in Tribal Communities 203
Amy Locklear Hertel, Kristen Wagner, and Jessica Black
14 Mosquito Advocacy: Change Promotion Strategies
for Small Groups with Big Ideas 219
Cindy Blackstock
Conclusion 233
Index 235
List of Figures
Figure 6.1 Nurturing family systems 99
Figure 13.1 Native framework of asset development 206
Figure 13.2 Model for integrated asset-building strategies
for reservation-based communities 208
Table 13.1 Examples of minors’ accounts in Indian country 212
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Notes on Contributors
Jessica Black is Gwich’in Athabascan from the village of Fort Yukon, Alaska. She
is currently a doctoral candidate at Washington University in St Louis and also
works as a consultant for the Council of Athabascan Tribal Governments in Fort
Yukon, Alaska. Jessica’s dissertation focuses on the intersection between tribal
members’ participation in governance and its relationship to well-being, both at
the individual and community level.
Cindy Blackstock, PhD, is a member of the Gitksan First Nation. She serves
as the Executive Director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society
of Canada and as an Associate Professor for the University of Alberta. She has
worked in the (cid:191)eld of child and family services as a front-line child protection
worker, instructor, researcher, and policy maker for over 25 years. As author of
over 50 publications, her key interests include exploring and addressing the causes
of disadvantage for Aboriginal children and families through public education
and engagement promoting equitable, culturally based interventions. Current
professional interests include holding fellowships with the Ashoka Foundation
and the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, and being a mentor for the Trudeau
Foundation.
Roe Bubar, JD, is a Native Studies Scholar and Associate Professor jointly
appointed in the Department of Ethnic Studies and School of Social Work. Roe also
serves as Af(cid:191)liate Faculty in Women’s Studies at Colorado State University. She
teaches Indigenous courses. Her current research agenda considers intersectionality
and sexual violence, health disparities, child maltreatment in tribal communities,
and Native youth and STD/STI messaging. Roe has over 20 years of experience
in the (cid:191)eld and continues to work with tribes, states, federal agencies, and NGOs
in tribal communities on a variety of research issues, including child sexual abuse
and related projects.
Marian Bussey is an Associate Professor at the University of Denver’s Graduate
School of Social Work, with experience teaching in the areas of mental health,
trauma, research, and social work history. Her practice background in working
within community mental health and drug treatment centers led to an exploration
of the role of trauma in clients’ lives, and the social work approaches, both social
justice and clinical, that can help clients transform the trauma. Her academic
work as a program evaluator introduced her to a decade-long partnership with the
Denver Indian Family Resource Center, and her co-author, Dr Lucero.