The Responses of American Indian Children to Presbyterian Schooling in the Nineteenth Century: An Analysis through Missionary Sources

1987 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael C. Coleman
Author(s):  
Angela G. Brega ◽  
Rachel L. Johnson ◽  
Luohua Jiang ◽  
Anne R. Wilson ◽  
Sarah J. Schmiege ◽  
...  

In cross-sectional studies, parental health literacy (HL) is associated with children’s oral health. It is unclear, however, whether HL influences pediatric outcomes. We examined the relationship of HL with change over time in parental oral health knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors, as well as pediatric oral health outcomes. We used longitudinal data from a study designed to reduce dental decay in American Indian children (N = 579). At baseline and annually for three years, parents answered questions assessing HL; oral health knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors; and pediatric oral health status. The number of decayed, missing, and filled tooth surfaces (dmfs) was computed based on annual dental evaluations. Linear mixed models showed that HL was significantly associated with all constructs, except dmfs, at their reference time points and persistently across the three-year study period. HL predicted change over time in only one variable, parents’ belief that children’s oral health is determined by chance or luck. HL is strongly associated with oral health knowledge, beliefs, behaviors, and status prospectively but is not a key driver of change over time in these oral health constructs.


Medical Care ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (6) ◽  
pp. 562-569 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan E. Puumala ◽  
Katherine M. Burgess ◽  
Anupam B. Kharbanda ◽  
Heather G. Zook ◽  
Dorothy M. Castille ◽  
...  

2001 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 356-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Story ◽  
June Stevens ◽  
Marguerite Evans ◽  
Carol E. Cornell ◽  
Juhaeri ◽  
...  

JAMA ◽  
1934 ◽  
Vol 102 (12) ◽  
pp. 913 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILLIAM B. OWEN

1988 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Locust

When educators debate the effects of cultural differences on educational practice, they are normally concerned with issues of language, learning patterns, and preferred communication styles. Seldom do they consider how differences in belief systems might affect educational practice. Carol Locust argues that fundamental differences exist between the belief systems of American Indians and those of non-Indians, and that the lack of knowledge about these belief systems on the part of the U.S. educational system has led to discriminatory treatment of American Indian students. Locust concludes that educators must understand and respect American Indian belief systems before they can begin to improve the educational experiences of American Indian children.


Author(s):  
Michael Silverstein

Analyzing Franz Boas's critically new insights under the lens of philology, this chapter redefines Boasian linguistics as a globalizing mode of mutual enlightenment through the exchange of grammatical concepts between selves across borders of sound and sense—a process he calls “comparative calibrationism,” the asymptotic pursuit of the always-inaccessible yet ever-closer universal truth. It focuses on the Handbook of American Indian Languages, where Boas dismantled every plank in the language-focused platform on which inferences of evolutionary primitivism stand. Boas also went after the very applicability to American languages of the comparative method of historical linguistics, from which inferences of so-called linguistic families descended from single proto-languages emerged in the nineteenth century.


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