{"id":11078,"date":"2010-12-30T02:27:20","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T02:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11078"},"modified":"2010-12-30T02:44:11","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T02:44:11","slug":"cultural-activities-identities-and-mental-health-among-urban-american-indians-with-mixed-racialethnic-ancestries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11078","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Activities, Identities, and Mental Health Among Urban American Indians with Mixed Racial\/Ethnic Ancestries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cultural Activities, Identities, and Mental Health Among Urban American Indians with Mixed Racial\/Ethnic Ancestries<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Race and Social Problems<\/a>
\nVolume 2, Number 2<\/a> (2010)
\npages 101-114
\nDOI: 10.1007\/s12552-010-9028-9<\/a><\/p>\n

Yoshitaka Iwasaki<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Rehabilitation Sciences and Social Work
\nTemple University<\/em><\/p>\n

Namorah Gayle Byrd<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor, Developmental English
\nGloucester County College, New Jersey<\/em><\/p>\n

Focus groups were conducted to appreciate the voices of Urban American Indians (UAI) who have mixed ancestries residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania<\/a>. Participants (15 women and 10 men, 19\u201383 years of age) with a variety of Native ancestries coming from different nations (i.e., blackfeet<\/a>, blackminkwa, Cherokee<\/a>, Creek<\/a>, Delaware<\/a>, Lakota<\/a>, Powhatan<\/a>, Seminole<\/a>, and Shawnee<\/a>) reported to also have a Non-Native racial\/ethnic ancestry such as African\/black, Hispanic, and\/or Caucasian\/white. Specifically, this study provided evidence about (a) the complexity and challenge of being \u201cmixed\u201d UAI (e.g., \u201cliving a culture\u201d as opposed to blood quantum in determining a personal identity) (b) the linkage of cultural identities to mental health (c) contributions of cultural activities to identities and mental health (e.g., therapeutic and healing functions of cultural activities), and (d) very limited urban Native-oriented mental health service (e.g., visions for Native American-centered mental health clinic in an urban setting). Building on those UAI\u2019s voices, this paper provides a context for the need of a culturally respectful transformation of urban mental health system by highlighting the clinical significance of cultural identity and mental health promotion for UAI.<\/p>\n

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Cultural Activities, Identities, and Mental Health Among Urban American Indians with Mixed Racial\/Ethnic Ancestries Race and Social Problems Volume 2, Number 2 (2010) pages 101-114 DOI: 10.1007\/s12552-010-9028-9 Yoshitaka Iwasaki, Professor of Rehabilitation Sciences and Social Work Temple University Namorah Gayle Byrd, Assistant Professor, Developmental English Gloucester County College, New Jersey Focus groups were conducted to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,3015,4481,20],"tags":[4886,4885,4884,4889,4888,2550,4887],"class_list":["post-11078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-social-work","category-usa","tag-namorah-byrd","tag-namorah-g-byrd","tag-namorah-gayle-byrd","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-race-and-social-problems","tag-yoshitaka-iwasaki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}