Religious freedom is necessarily a broad concept since it must apply to a wide range of religions. Yet, religious freedom in the United States is rooted in the First Amendment, which was created for a limited set of religions (i.e., Protestant Christi . . .

This research project was designed to gain the perspectives of Native American Tribal mothers of the Fit-Teen Diabetes Prevention Program initiated in 2007 in a rural Northern California reservation community. The Fit-Teen Program classroom curriculum . . .

In a brief from the Department of Health and Human Services (Recent demographics, 2013), data from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) estimated that although national trends have shown dramatic declines in most ethnic . . .

Limited documentation exists about the therapeutic effects of gardening for Native Americans. Native American individuals who utilized services at local Inter-Tribal Health Center participated in a horticulture group which has been in place since Apri . . .

The California Gold Rush was instrumental in the growth and creation of the American West. The sudden influx of settlers and the myriad of impacts of mining and settler community formation on the environment and Indigenous peoples drastically changed . . .

Oppression and marginalization are still very much rampant in today’s society. Two groups oppressed groups in rural northern California are indigenous people and immigrant Hispanic populations. Northern California is home to some of the largest tribes . . .

This study explored how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrant parents applied culturally based parenting strategies from Cara y Corazon (Face and Heart) an Indigenous based parenting strengthening curriculum, and examined how the parents’ experience . . .

Indigenous populations have experienced devastating collective and massive group trauma, compounding discrimination, racism, and oppression as a result of colonization. Scholars argue that the colonization experience of Native Americans creates a trau . . .