Identity, cultural values, and American Indians' perceptions of science and technology

American Indian Culture and Research Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 45-58

  James, Keith ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33847070868     PISSN: 01616463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17953/aicr.30.3.b54252h8567346l0     Document Type: Review

References (52)

1. Keith James, Gillian Khoo, and Diane Harbold, "Minority Women and Technology," Technology Studies 3 (1996): 94-120.
2. Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology, The Status of Native Americans in Science and Engineering (Washington, DC: Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology, 2005).
3. Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology, The Status of Native Americans and Keith James "American Indians, Science, and Technology," Social Science Computer Review 18 (2000): 196-213.
4. Ibid.
5. Assembly of First Nations, Restoring First Nation Governments (Ottawa, Canada: Assembly of First Nations, 2000) and James, "American Indians, Science."
6. T. K. Young, The Health of Native Americans: Toward a Biocultural Epidemiology (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).
7. Freda Porter-Locklear, "Water and Water Quality Issues in and for American Indian Communities," in Science and Native American Communities: Legacies of Pain, Visions of Promise, ed. Keith James (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001), 111-18.
8. National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Falling through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide. A Report on the Telecommunications and Information Technology Gap in America (Washington, DC: US Department of Commerce, 1999) and Assembly of First Nations, Banishing the Indian Agent, Choices for Change (Ottawa, Canada: Assembly of First Nations, 2000).
9. Ibid.; Office of Technology Policy, The Digital Work Force: Building Infotech Skills at the Speed of Innovation (Washington, DC: US Department of Commerce, 1999) and Keith James, Willie Wolf, Christofer Lovato, and Steve Byers, Barriers to Workplace Advancement Experienced by Native Americans (Washington, DC: US Department of Labor, Glass Ceiling Commission Monograph Series, 1995).
10. Gregory Cajete, Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence (Santa Fe, NM: Clear Light Publishers, 2000); James, "American Indians, Science"; and David D, Suzuki and P. Knudtson, Wisdom of the Elders: Sacred Native Stories of Nature (New York: Bantam Books, 1992).
11. Cajete, Native Science; Donald L. Fixico, The American Indian Mind in a Linear World (New York: Routledge, 2003); and Jake Weatherford, Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World (New York: Fawcett, 1988).
12. R. O. Stephenson, "Nunamiut Eskimos, Wildlife Biologists, and Wolves," in Wolves of the World, ed. F. H. Harrington and P. C. Pacquet (Park Ridge, NJ: Noyes Publications, 1982), 434-39 and Weatherford, Indian Givers.
13. Ibid.
14. Clifford Atleo, "Land, Science, and Indigenous Science: Tales from a Modern Treaty Negotiation Process," in James, Science and Native American Communities, 155-63.
15. Fixico, American Indian Mind; James, "American Indians, Science"; and W. Rybczynski, Taming the Tiger: The Struggle for Control of Technology (New York: Viking, 1983).
16. Frank Dukepoo, "The Native American Honor Society: Challenging Indian Students to Achieve," in James, Science and Native American Communities, 36-42.
17. R. Common and L. Frost, Teaching Wigwams: A Model Vision of Native Education (Muncey, Ontario, Canada: Anishinaabe Kendaaswin Publishing, 1994) and J. Lipka and T. L. McCarty, "Changing the Culture of Schooling: Navajo and Yup'ik Cases," Anthropology and Education Quarterly 25 (1994): 266-84.
18. James, "American Indians, Science" and Suzuki and Knudtson, Wisdom of the Elders.
19. James, "American Indians, Science"; J. P. Pommersheim and F. H. Bell, "Computer Programming Achievement, Cognitive Style and Cognitive Profiles," ADES Journal 15 (1986): 51-59;
20. and R. B. Slaney and J. E. A. Russell, "Perspectives on Vocational Behavior, 1986: A Review," Journal of Vocational Behavior 31 (1987): 111-73.
21. Dukepoo, "Native American Honor Society."
22. E.g., Keith James and Jeff Greenberg, "Spatial Test Performance among Women: Social Context Influences on Individual Ability," Basic and Applied Social Psychology 19 (1997): 411-25 and
23. C. M. Steele, "A Threat in the Air: How Stereotypes Shape Intellectual Identity and Performance," American Psychologist 52 (1997): 613-29.
24. Dukepoo, "Native American Honor Society" and James "American Indians, Science."
25. Francis R. Kluckhohn and F. L. Strodbeck, Variations in Value Orientations (New York: Harper and Row, 1961)
26. and Harry C. Triandis, "The Self and Social Behavior in Differing Cultural Contexts," Psychological Review 96 (1989): 506-20.
27. James, Science and Native American Communities.
28. Vine Deloria Jr., Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact (Golden, CO: Fulcrum Press, 1997) and James, "American Indians, Science."
29. Ibid.; Cajete, Native Science, Fixico, American Indian Mind; Arnold Pacey, The Culture of Technology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983);
30. and Joseph E. Trimble, "Value Differences among American Indians: Concerns for the Concerned Counselor," in Counseling across Cultures, ed. P. Pedersen, W. J. Lonner, and J. G. Draguns (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1976), 65-81.
31. E. N. Anderson, Ecologies of the Heart: Emotion, Belief, and the Environment (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996); Cajete, Native Science, Fixico, American Indian Mind; and R. A. Rappaport, "The Sacred in Human Evolution," Annual Review Ecology and Systems (1971): 23-44.
32. M. Bopp, G. Fritz, D. McNeil, P. Lucas-Morris, G. Strikes-With-A-Gun, P. Strikes-With-A-Gun, S. Waboose, and E. L. Warrior, "How We Used to Work," The Four Worlds Exchange (1989): 18-20.
33. Pacey, Culture of Technology.
34. Daniel N.Jackson. "Scientific and Technological Innovation: Its Personological and Motivational Context," in Scientific Excellence: Origins and Assessment, ed. Daniel N. Jackson and J. P. Rushton (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1987), 149-64.
35. Pacey, Culture of Technology and R. F. Subotnik and C. L. Steiner, "Adult Manifestations of Adolescent Talent in Science: A Longitudinal Study of 1983 Westinghouse Science Talent Search Winners," in Beyond Terman: Contemporary Longitudinal Studies of Giftedness and Talent, ed. R. F. Subotnik and K. D. Arnold (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1994), 52-76.
36. Dukepoo, "Native American Honor Society"; James, "American Indians, Science"; and D. Sanders, "Cultural Conflicts: An Important Factor in the Academic Failure of American Indian Students," Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development 15 (1987): 81-90.
37. Ibid.
38. Subotnik and Steiner, "Adult Manifestations."
39. Eugene R. Oetting and Fred Beauvais, "Orthogonal Cultural Identification Theory: The Cultural Identification of Minority Adolescents," International Journal of the Addictions 25 (1990): 655-85
40. and Eugene R. Getting, Randolf C. Swaim, and Margarita C. Chiarella, "Factor Structure and Invariance of the Orthogonal Cultural Identification Scale among American Indian and Mexican American Youth," Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 20 (1998): 131-54.
41. Keith James, Ernest Chavez, Fredrick Beauvais, Ruth Edwards, and Eugene R. Oetting, "School Achievement and Dropout among Anglo and Indian Females and Males," American Indian Culture and Research Journal 19 (1995): 181-206.
42. Francis R. Kluckhohn, "Dominant and Variant Value Orientations," in Personality in Nature, Society, and Culture, ed. Francis R. Kluckhohn and H. A. Murray (New York: Knopf, 1953)
43. and Kluckhohn and Strodbeck, Variations in Value.
44. Keith James and Joseph Cardador, "Cognitions and Beliefs about Technology and Science: Measurement, Validation, and Application to Career Choice Decisions," Journal of Career Assessment (in press).
45. Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology, The Status of Native Americans.
46. E.g., Common and Frost, Teaching Wigwams and Lipka and McCarty, "Changing the Culture."
47. Keith James, "Perceived Self-Relevance of Technology as an Influence on Attitudes and Information Retention," Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 29 (1993): 56-75.
48. Steele, "A Threat in the Air."
49. James and Greenberg, "Spatial Test."
50. Cajete, Native Science;
51. Fixico, American Indian Mind;
52. and Weatherford, Indian Givers.