Article: Recovering without the needed help. (Editorial).(Urban native women.)(Editorial)

Article: Native women have lower status.
Native American Report;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... status among Indian women. A quarter of Native women live in poverty, and the statistics are ... counted, things look even worse: rural Native women make $15,000 a year, while urban Native women earn $18,800. The situation varied dramatically ...

Article: Book explores struggles of urban Native people; ...
Ontario Birchbark;  February 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... These words come from a mixed-blood urban Native person residing in Toronto. They form ... Real" Indians and Others: Mixed Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous Nationhood ... Indian Act that for over a century forced Native women out of their communities," she states ...

Article: "Real" Indians and Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native ...
American Review of Canadian Studies;  December 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous ... Others: Mixed-Blood Urban Native Peoples and Indigenous ... between the rights of Native women and Native men who ... recently, most of these Native women lost their status ...

Article: "Assisting our own": urban migration, self-governance, and ...
The American Indian Quarterly;  June 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... chapter of the Ontario Native Women's Association (ONWA ... because they believed Native women in crisis and their ... struggling to define an urban Native identity that retained ... self-governance. Native women's organizing in Thunder ...

Article: Play tells tough story of violence against Native ...
Ontario Birchbark;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... and women, urban and non-urban Native people, and especially between ... timely." Women--often Native women--"are still disappearing." The Native Women's Association estimates the number of Native women who have gone missing over ...

Article: Keeping the campfires going: urban American Indian women's ...
The American Indian Quarterly;  June 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... to building and sustaining urban Native communities, not only through ... the maintenance of culture. Native women have adapted traditional approaches ... are often the backbones of urban Native communities. Native women have been particularly instrumental ...

Article: Navajo Vice President Ben Shelly Acknowledged for Support of New ...
Targeted News Service;  April 1, 2008 ;     679 words ... ... charged with improving the health of urban Native people. The Vice President received ... also calls for the appointment of nine urban Native American health experts and advocates ... Navajo Nation." Within two years, the urban Native American health commission will create ...