The Inuit subsist on a diet of virtually all meat and fat yet avoid deficiency and heart diseases. Explains this paradox and discusses cultural and geographic influences on diet. The Inuit diet is compared with a typical American diet and the diet recommended by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in a laboratory exercise that measures dietary fat.…

Reports on the investigations and writings of Stanford assistant professor of English Robert Allen Warrior concerning published writings by American Indian authors back to the 1760s. Introduces two of Warrior's current projects: comparing American Indian authors John Joseph Matthews and Vine Deloria Jr., and examining writings of Indian activists…

American Indians are regularly cited as models by and for Europeans. On closer examination, these "Indians" turn out to be a fictional assemblage fabricated over the past five centuries to serve specific cultural and emotional needs of its inventors. Studies changing representations of the Indian as used by European cultures. (AF)

This paper examines the training requirements in the areas of multiculturalism and human relations for elementary and secondary teacher education candidates in South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. The paper first briefly reviews the gradual inclusion of multicultural and human relations requirements on a national level. Requirements in the…

The narrative of the American Indian has pronounced social, political, and economic implications; the complete story predicates and ratifies a special place for the Indian in North American moral and political systems. But mythic structures and cultural fictions must be combated with true accounts of historical events and relationships. (AF)