[Review of] Margaret Connell Szasz. Indian Education in the American Colonies, 1607-1783

In this ethnohistory of American Indian education, Margaret Szasz broadly interprets education to mean the transmission of culture over time. Within the arena of contact, prominent Indians who helped mediate the relations between Euro -- and Native Americans are identified. Szasz calls these individuals cultural brokers, and her analysis of their roles in the history of colonial education is an important contribution to scholarship

[Review of] John Fahey. The Kalispel Indians

Over time the Kalispel Indians of northeastern Washington resisted all federal attempts to remove them from their original homelands. Their tenacious attachment to the land eventually enabled them to gain title to a small reservation on the Pend Oreille River. Never fully satisfied with the size of their reservation (4,269.27 acres) and determined to ensure their cultural survival, the Kalispels initiated a land claims case in 1950. Thirteen long and politically difficult years later the tribe settled for three million dollars. Thereafter, they used the settlement to secure their economic future

[Review of] Edward H. Spicer. People of Pascua

On the surface, People of Pascua appears to be a focused anthropological field study limited to a narrow period of time. It should not surprise those who are familiar with Edward Spicer\u27s preeminent scholarship on acculturation, however, that things are not always what they seem to be. It is true that this study concerning the Yaquis, begun in 1941, stems from Spicer\u27s first field experience as a graduate student. Yet, People of Pascua has broader implications that go beyond the lives of the Yaquis who made Pascua Village, Arizona, their home. Spicer\u27s methodology included biography as a means to better understand Yaqui behaviors, choices, and attitudes about others. And in this, his earliest of works about the Yaquis, Spicer explored the ideas about culture contact and persistence that would inform his later writings, as well as influence so many of his students and colleagues

[Review of] E. Jane Gay. With the Nez Perces: A lice Fletcher in the Field, 1889-92

Persons interested in Indian history will not want to overlook this collection of E. Jane Gay\u27s letters written from Nez Perce (Nimipu) country between 1889-1892. On four separate trips to the West, Gay accompanied her friend, special agent and anthropologist Alice Fletcher, whose job it was to coordinate the allotment of the Nez Perce reservation in Idaho. While Her Majesty (Gay\u27s endearment for Fletcher) figures prominently in the correspondence, the letters tell us less about Fletcher than the subtitle suggests. What they do provide, however, is an insightful account of the allotment process at the local level, and herein lies their value. With the Nez Perces gives its readers the opportunity to better understand the period by looking beyond the implementation of policy, as Gay did, to the ways in which individuals coped with changing circumstances. Editors Hoxie and Mark augment Gay\u27s twenty-seven letters with thirty-eight of her own photographs, a sound introduction, and interpretive endnotes

Law Enforcement Cardiovascular Health: A Qualitative Study on Law Enforcement Officers\u27 Risk Awareness and The Targeted Mitigation of Cardiovascular Disease

Cardiovascular disease-related deaths and injuries are prevalent among law enforcement officers (Han et al., 2017; Keeler et al., 2021), with attribution pointing to the strong associations between the inherent stressors of police work directly impacting the psychological and physical health of police officers (Santa Maria et al., 2018; Violanti et al., 2017). As such, several researchers have studied the associations between police officers\u27 perceptions of stress and the presence of cardiovascular disease risk factors. However, there is a current gap in the literature on information examining the relationship between law enforcement officers\u27 cardiovascular disease risk perceptions and their utilized health behaviors for mitigating such risk. The aim of this case study was to understand the perceptions of cardiovascular disease risk among law enforcement officers in Ohio, United States. Rosenstock\u27s (1966/1974) health belief model theory, which suggests a positive relationship between one\u27s perceptions of risk and health behaviors, provided this study\u27s guiding principles. The researcher explored police officers\u27 perceptions of their cardiovascular disease risk and their reported health behaviors. This researcher conducted in-depth interviews with a purposive sample of 11 Ohio law enforcement officers with varied demographic backgrounds. Following data collection and qualitative analysis, the researcher reported findings and provided recommendations for improving the lives of police officers, their families, and the communities they serve

The Animal Genetic Resource Information Network (AnimalGRIN) Database: A Database Design & Implementation Case

This case describes a database redesign project for the United States Department of Agriculture’s National Animal Germplasm Program (NAGP). The case provides a valuable context for teaching and practicing database analysis, design, and implementation skills, and can be used as the basis for a semester-long team project. The case demonstrates the broad applicability of database skills to domains outside typical business applications. The functional requirements for the NAGP’s information system are documented with a detailed set of use cases, which are commonly used in practice and which provides a link between the database course and the systems analysis and design course in many information systems curricula. The NAGP database redesign project was initiated because the original database design was not flexible or rigorous enough to handle the ways in which the organization’s needs grew. The case provides several opportunities to emphasize design flexibility and data integrity controls

Chiasma

Newspaper reporting on events at the Boston University School of Medicine in the 1960s