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Pressing Issues of Inequality and American Indian Communities
Keith Kilty
A much-needed, indispensable volume for anyone involved in the social services or human services field, Pressing Issues of Inequality and American Indian Communities supplies you with vital information that will assist you in offering culturally sensitive services to your clients. You will gain a new perspective from the blending of traditional academic research with the voices of those most intimately affected. From Pressing Issues of Inequality and American Indian Communities, you will learn proven methods that will help you offer successful and effective services to your Native American clients.Pressing Issues of Inequality and American Indian Communities reveals the stark realities facing American Indian people today. Through this compelling book you will gain new insight into the challenges presented to Native Americans and how to help your clients face these challenges by:
- learning how to assist American Indian families through an increased understanding of the new time-limited welfare assistance that generally only impacts them if they live off the reservation
- examining how poverty and a lack of infrastructure and social services exacerbates the problems Navajo women face when leaving violence in their homes
- using the positive power of language through case examples of American Indian women to understand how stories and their implications change significantly depending on if they are interpreted from a deficit or strength perspective
From the information in Pressing Issues of Inequality and American Indian Communities, you will gain new insight into specific problems facing American Indian people, including welfare reform?s devastating effects on American Indians trying live off the reservation and the impact of reservation isolation on domestic violence. The information in Pressing Issues of Inequality and American Indian Communities will help you provide culturally sensitive services to Native Americans and assist them in increasing their quality of life.
112 pages
| Mídia | Livros Hardcover Book (Livro com lombada e capa dura) |
| Lançado | 15 de outubro de 1998 |
| ISBN13 | 9780789006639 |
| Editoras | Taylor & Francis Inc |
| Páginas | 112 |
| Dimensões | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 370 g |
| Idioma | Inglês |
