Cross-Cultural Affinities between Native American and White Women in "The Alaska Widow" by Edith Eaton (Sui Sin Far)

MELUS ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-163
Author(s):  
M. Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
White Women ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Sui Sin Far ◽  
Edith Eaton

Attitudes and Perceptions Related to Smoking among Pregnant and Postpartum Women in a Low-Income, Multiethnic Setting

1998 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 267-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline L. Dunn ◽  
Phyllis L. Pirie ◽  
Harry A. Lando
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Low Income ◽  
White Women ◽  
Smoking Behavior ◽  
Smoke Exposure ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Smoking During Pregnancy ◽  
Attitudes And Perceptions ◽  
Passive Smoke ◽  
Local Residents

Purpose. The purpose of this study was to gain insight into attitudes and perceptions about smoking during pregnancy, passive smoke exposure, barriers to quitting, and program preferences among women in a low-income, ethnically diverse setting. Design. Nine focus group discussions were conducted with African-American, Native American, and white women. Discussions were moderated by local residents who shared the same ethnic background as group participants. Setting. Discussions were held in neighborhood centers and clinics in an urban area. Subjects. A total of 57 women participated. Moderators recruited participants from within their social networks and from neighborhood programs. The informal process of recruitment did not allow calculation of response rates. Measures. A series of open-ended questions with selected probes was used to guide the conversation. Results. Participants were aware that smoking during pregnancy is harmful and were concerned to varying degrees about their smoking behavior. Most women who smoked took active steps to reduce the risks. Actions were frequently accompanied by beliefs that rationalized moderate levels of smoking. While concerned, women were uncertain about what constituted harmful, passive smoke exposure. Personal barriers to quitting included being around others who smoked, feelings of stress and boredom, addiction, and not believing smoking is dangerous enough. Participants tended to value pregnancy-related advice from female friends and relatives over advice from professionals. Conclusions. Results suggest that many women respond to warnings about smoking during pregnancy, but actions are not necessarily measured, in quit rates. Misconceptions about the risks may help to rationalize continued smoking. Subjects lacked knowledge about how best to reduce the risks of passive smoke. Educational efforts may be effective when directed at networks of women who share information. The nature of qualitative data collection prevents extrapolation of these results to a larger population.

Utilizing the Dynamic Role of Objects to Enhance Cross-Cultural Climate Change Collaborations

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott E. Kalafatis ◽  
Julie C. Libarkin ◽  
Kyle Powys Whyte ◽  
Chris Caldwell
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Native American ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Expert Elicitation ◽  
Boundary Object ◽  
Cultural Climate

Abstract Engagements between climate scientists and communities feature challenges but are also essential for successfully preparing for climate change. This is particularly true for indigenous peoples who are proactively responding to the threats that climate change poses by engaging in collaborations with climate decision-support organizations. The potential for risks and rewards associated with engagements like these makes developing tools for comprehensively, consistently, and equitably assessing cross-cultural climate collaborations a critical challenge. This paper describes a multicultural team’s efforts to develop a survey that can assess collaborations between Native American tribes in the United States and climate science organizations. In the process, the developing survey’s oscillations between acting as a boundary object and acting as an epistemic object in the project revealed common ground as well as existing differences across the cultural, disciplinary, and professional divides involved. Delphi expert elicitation was shown to be an effective approach for negotiating a cross-cultural research effort like this one because of its ability to establish consensus while delineating gaps. This experience highlights that assessing cross-cultural climate collaborations requires that both researchers and the tools that they use have the capacity to identify both common ground and distinctions between climate scientists and the communities with which they collaborate.

scholarly journals Cervical papillomavirus infection and cervical dysplasia in Hispanic, Native American, and non-Hispanic white women in New Mexico.

1991 ◽  
Vol 81 (5) ◽  
pp. 582-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
T M Becker ◽  
C M Wheeler ◽  
N S McGough ◽  
S W Jordan ◽  
M Dorin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
White Women ◽  
Cervical Dysplasia ◽  
Papillomavirus Infection ◽  
Hispanic White

Narrative Competence: Cross-Cultural Comparisons

1992 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera John-Steiner ◽  
Carolyn Panofsky
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Public School ◽  
Initial Study ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
School Students ◽  
Public School Students ◽  
Speech Communities ◽  
Cohesive Devices ◽  
Cultural Schemas ◽  
American Students

Abstract In a series of cross-cultural studies of narratives by children and adolescents, we examined thematic variations as well as cohesive devices. Our subjects ranged from 5 to 15 years of age. Our initial study included Black, Hispanic, and Native-American participants. We used a story-retelling task for comparative analysis. We found that children between ages 5 and 8 substantively increased the quantity and accuracy of their retold narratives. We also found thematic differ-ences among stories by children from the different speech communities, which suggested coherent cultural schemas specific to each ethnic group. Native-Amer-ican students, who reconstructed stories on the basis of pictorial cues, also revealed strong cultural and tribal variations in their narratives. In follow-up studies, we examined the relationship between narrative compe-tence and narrative cohesion. Our subjects (ranging in age from 8 to 11) were drawn from public school groups of English-speaking American students and Hungarian public school students. In the retold stories of these two groups, we found that the Hungarian students demonstrated a more artful storytelling style, employing a greater variety of cohesive devices and establishing a more coherent narrative experience than did the American students. (Linguistics, Education)

Sui Sin Far/Edith Eaton: First Chinese-American Fictionist

MELUS ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 27 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. E. Solberg
Keyword(s):  
Chinese American ◽  
Sui Sin Far ◽  
Edith Eaton

Initial Screening Transferrin Saturation Values, Serum Ferritin Concentrations, and HFE Genotypes in Native Americans and Whites in the Hemochromatosis and Iron Overload Screening (HEIRS) Study.

Blood ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 106 (11) ◽  
pp. 3712-3712
Author(s):  
James C. Barton ◽  
Ronald T. Acton ◽  
Laura Lovato ◽  
Mark R. Speechley ◽  
Christine E. McLaren ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Iron Overload ◽  
Allele Frequency ◽  
White Women ◽  
Transferrin Saturation ◽  
White Men ◽  
Initial Screening ◽  
Native American Women ◽  
Men And Women

Abstract There are few reports of transferrin saturation (TfSat) and serum ferritin (SF) phenotypes and HFE C282Y and H63D genotypes in native Americans. We compared initial screening data of 645 native American and 43,453 white HEIRS Study participants who reported a single race/ethnicity and who did not report a previous diagnosis of hemochromatosis or iron overload. Each underwent TfSat and SF measurements without regard to fasting, and HFE C282Y and H63D genotyping. Elevated measurements were defined as: TfSat >50% (men), >45% (women); and SF >300 ng/mL (men), >200 ng/mL (women). Mean TfSat was lower in native American men than in white men (31% vs. 32%, respectively; p = 0.0337), and lower in native American women than in white women (25% vs. 27%, respectively; p <0.0001). Mean SF was similar in native American and white men (153 μg/L vs. 151 μg/L; p = 0.8256); mean SF was lower in native American women than in white women (55 μg/L vs. 63 μg/L, respectively; p = 0.0015). The respective percentages of native American men and women with elevated TfSat or elevated SF were similar to those of white men and women. The respective mean TfSat and SF values of native American and white participants with genotype HFE wt/wt were similar. The C282Y allele frequency was 0.0340 in native Americans and 0.0683 in whites (p <0.0001). The H63D allele frequency was 0.1150 in native Americans and 0.1532 in whites (p = 0.0001). We conclude that the screening TfSat and SF phenotypes of native Americans do not differ greatly from those of whites. The respective allele frequencies of HFE C282Y and H63D are significantly lower in native Americans than in whites.

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