REACH director Kirk Dombrowski recently contributed to a study on the cultural and health dynamics of Alaska Natives. Wide health outcome disparities exist between Alaska Natives and non-AN relating to cardiovascular health. For instance, AN persons are much more likely to die from heart attack
Postdoc Elspeth Ready gave a talk to the Department of Human Behavior, Ecology, and Culture at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, on October 19th, on using social network analysis to examine how food sharing contributes to community food security and climate change resilience
It has been consistently found in Aboriginal communities that the continuation of cultural traditions of is vital to the maintenance, resilience, and health of a society. For a community familiar to forced acculturation and discrimination, the identity and empowerment found in the conservation of Aboriginal culture has
REACH Lab's Jerreed Ivanich and Kirk Dombrowski joined University of Alaska-Fairbanks partners in collecting baseline fieldwork on the Qungasvik Project led by UAF anthropology Stacy Rasmus and Univ Minnesota-Duluth's James Allen. Great team to work with, and it was work! The project focuses on cultural
2016 Kirk Dombrowski, Patrick Habecker, G. Robin Gauthier, Joshua Moses, and Bilal Khan, “Relocation Redux: Labrador Inuit population movements and inequalities in the land claims era”, Current Anthropology 57(6): 785-805. The importance of community relocation experiences for aboriginal land claims movements is well documented; the role
Creating a Community of Practice to Prevent Suicide Through Multiple Channels: Describing the Theoretical Foundations and Structured Learning of PC CARES Lisa Wexler,1 Diane McEachern,2 Gloria DiFulvio,1 Cristine Smith,1 Louis F. Graham,1,3 and Kirk Dombrowski4 It is critical to develop practical, effective, ecological, and decolonizing approaches to
Editor: Mark Aldenderfer, University of California, Merced Relocation Redux: Labrador Inuit Population Movements and Inequalities in the Land Claims Era Kirk Dombrowski, Patrick Habecker, G. Robin Gauthier, Bilal Khan, and Joshua Moses The importance of community relocation experiences for aboriginal land claims movements is well documented; the role
The leaders of the Attawapiskat First Nation, an isolated Cree community in northern Ontario, Canada, have declared a state of emergency over a series of suicide attempts. Read the full story from NPR here.
March 20 is National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day and a celebration of life. Improving the overall well-being of the Native community is our collective duty and responsibility. It is also an opportunity to nurture individual and community level empowerment accented with indigenous teachings and cultural practices. The resiliency factors embedded in Native
The Developing Effective Proximal Care to Prevent Rural Alaska Native Youth Suicide project, developed by Dr. Lisa Wexler at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Dr. Kirk Dombrowski here at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was recently featured in the Alaska Dispatch News. Click here to read the