Native American Studies
The Department of Native American Studies was established to provide and advance quality education for and about American Indians of Montana, the region, and the nation. In fulfilling this mission, the Department is committed to meet the changing needs of Montana's Indian tribes and all Montana citizens through excellence in teaching, research, and service. In its academic program, the department provides concentrated study through an undergraduate minor, the first online graduate certificate in Native American Studies offered, and a Master of Arts degree in Native American Studies. Students in any major can also gain a multicultural perspective through NAS offerings in the University's core curriculum. The Department, through its research and other creative efforts, actively pursues interdisciplinary scholarship in the field of Native American Studies.
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Diversity and use of medicinal plants for soup making in traditional diets of the Hakka in West Fujian, China
(2019-11)Background Wild edible and medicinal plants were an important component of traditional diets and continue to contribute to food security, nutrition, and health in many communities globally. For example, the preparation ... -
Intended and Unintended Consequences of a Community-Based Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Dietary Intervention on the Flathead Reservation of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
(2020-08)Tribal communities in the United States face disparities to accessing healthy foods including high-quality produce. A six-week fresh fruit and vegetable (FV) dietary intervention, Eat Fresh, was co-designed with a Community ... -
Perceptions of food environments and nutrition among residents of the Flathead Indian Reservation
(2020-10)Background Indigenous food systems have been displaced with the emergence of colonization, industrialization, and cultural, economic, political, and environmental changes. This disruption can be seen in marked health and ... -
Bamboos for weaving and relevant traditional knowledge in Sansui, Southwest China
(2020-10)Background Traditional bamboo weaving has been practiced for centuries in Sansui, a county dominated by the Miao people, in Guizhou province of Southwest China. Sansui bamboo weaving represents an intangible cultural ... -
Food Environment Typology: Advancing an Expanded Definition, Framework, and Methodological Approach for Improved Characterization of Wild, Cultivated, and Built Food Environments toward Sustainable Diets
(2020-04)The food environment is a critical place in the food system to implement interventions to support sustainable diets and address the global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change, because it contains the ... -
Ethnobotany and diversity of medicinal plants used by the Buyi in eastern Yunnan, China
(2020-10)The Buyi are a socio-linguistic group in Yunnan Province of southwest China that have a long history of using medicinal plants as part of their indigenous medical system. Given the limited written documentation of the Buyi ... -
American Indian young adults display diminished cardiovascular and cortisol responses to acute psychological stress
(2020-04)American Indian adults are at an increased risk for cardiovascular disease compared with non-Hispanic white adults. Scant research exists examining the underlying physiological and psychological mechanisms associated with ... -
Variation of Microbiological and Biochemical Profiles of Laowo Dry-Cured Ham, an Indigenous Fermented Food, during Ripening by GC-TOF-MS and UPLC-QTOF-MS
(2020-07)Fermented foods have unique microbiota and metabolomic profiles that can support dietary diversity, digestion, and gut health of consumers. Laowo ham (LWH) is an example of an indigenous fermented food from Southwestern ... -
Contribution of wild foods to diet, food security, and cultural values amidst climate change
(2019-11)Wild foods are recognized to contribute to diet and food security through enhancing the availability of local, diverse, and nonmarket food sources. We investigated the contribution of wild foods to diet, food security, and ... -
A turbulent upriver flow: steamboat narratives of nature, technology, and humans in Montana Territory
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2019)For a 25 year period in the second half of the 19th century, steamboat travel was a critically important transportation technology which influenced the material, social, and cultural existence of people and landscapes in ... -
Dietary Beliefs and Management of Older American Indians With Type 2 Diabetes
(2019-07)Objectives This qualitative study examined dietary-related beliefs and self-management among older American Indians with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Design Semistructured in-person interviews were conducted and ... -
Educating for Sustainability in Remote Locations
(National Rural Education Association, 2019-07)At a time when social, economic and political decisions, along with environmental events, challenge the viability of remote communities, educators need to better prepare young people in these communities to work towards ... -
Green museums waking up the world: indigenous and mainstream approaches to exploring sustainability
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2018)Mainstream and Indigenous Museums are ideally situated, both geographically and culturally, to educate the public about complex twenty-first century environmental issues. The most effective approaches to understanding, ... -
An investigation of coliform contamination in private well water on the Crow Reservation
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Agriculture, 2019)The Crow reservation has a rural population that depends on home well water for domestic use. Many of the home wells do not have a suitable well cap, allowing a potential pathway of bacterial contamination of groundwater. ... -
The Whole in Small Compass: D'Arcy McNickle's Social Vision in The Surrounded
(2019-06-01)This essay aims to renew interest in D'Arcy McNickle's allotment-era novel set on the Flathead Indian Reservation, The Surrounded (1936), by drawing attention to how McNickle's social vision theorizes culture, history, and ... -
Performance of Arch-Style Road Crossing Structures from Relative Movement Rates of Large Mammals
(2017-10)In recent decades, an increasing number of highway construction and reconstruction projects have included mitigation measures aimed at reducing wildlife-vehicle collisions and maintaining habitat connectivity for wildlife. ... -
The motif of meeting: a content analysis of multi-voiced young adult novels
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Education, Health & Human Development, 2019)The purpose of this study was to discover, through content analysis, polyphonic narrative strategies used in a small sample of multi-voiced young adult novels. The objective was to trace the paths of the individual narrators ... -
Community-based prevention education on abusive head trauma in a Montana Native American community
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Nursing, 2019)This scholarly project cultivated a partnership with a Montana Native American community to develop an implementation method of an evidence-based, abusive-head-trauma-prevention education program. The partnering community ... -
Frailty in Older American Indians: The Native Elder Care Study
(2019-06)Introduction Frailty is often described as a reduction in energy reserves, especially with respect to physical ability and endurance, and it has not been examined in American Indians. The goals of this study were to ... -
An Apsaalooke view for educational leadership
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Education, Health & Human Development, 2019)There have been many calls for Native American communities to be given more self-determination in the education of their children. Yet despite these calls for allowing Native American parents to be included in the education ...
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