Advancing Community-Based Research with Urban American Indian Populations: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
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Advancing community-based research with urban American Indian populations: multidisciplinary perspectives.
The US has witnessed significant growth among urban American Indian (AI) populations in recent decades, and concerns have been raised that these populations face equal or greater degrees of disadvantage than their reservation counterparts. Surprisingly little urban AI research or community work has been documented in the literature, and even less has been written about the influences of urban s...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Community Psychology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0091-0562
DOI: 10.1007/s10464-014-9643-5