We the people: American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States: Census 2000 Special Reports

2006 ◽  
Vol 43 (11) ◽  
pp. 43-6886-43-6886 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
American Indians ◽  
The United States ◽  
Alaska Natives ◽  
United States Census ◽  
The People ◽  
Census 2000 ◽  
We The People

The Fiction of “We the People”: Is the Constitution Binding on Us?

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randy E. Barnett
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Popular Sovereignty ◽  
The People ◽  
We The People ◽  
Constitutional Legitimacy

This chapter explains why the consent of the governed cannot justify a duty to obey the laws. The Constitution begins with the statement, “We the People of the United States...do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” The founders declared that “We the People” had exercised their rights and manifested their consent to be ruled by the institutions “constituted” by this document. To understand what constitutional legitimacy requires, the chapter first considers what it means to assert that a constitution is “binding” before making the case that “We the People” is a fiction. More specifically, it challenges the idea, sometimes referred to as “popular sovereignty,” that the Constitution was or is legitimate because it was established by “We the People” or the “consent of the governed.” It argues that the fiction of “We the People” can prove dangerous in practice and can nurture unwarranted criticisms of the Constitution's legitimacy.

American Indians fitting into Medical School

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-11
Author(s):  
Apanakhi Buckley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Medical School ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Alaska Native ◽  
White Women ◽  
The United States ◽  
Alaska Natives ◽  
Indian Health Service ◽  
Native Women ◽  
Indian Health

This paper describes a qualitative study of how indigenous people experience medical school in the United States. Nine American Indians and Alaska Natives participated in the study: five women and four men. They came from eight different tribes, but they have asked me to protect their confidentiality, so I will not identify their tribes. Their ages ranged from 27 to 39. Five of them had children. Two of them were unmarried.In the United States, the need for indigenous physicians is great. Twice as many American Indians die from homicide and suicide as non-Indians in the United States (Wallace, Kirk, Houston, Amnest, and Emrich, 1993); three times as many die from accidents and more than four times as many die from alcoholism (Indian Health Service, 1996). Diabetes is rampant among American Indians and Alaska Natives. Women are the hardest hit (Gilliland, Gilliland, and Carter; 1997). More than five times as many American Indian and Alaska Native women die from diabetes than non-Latina white women.

scholarly journals Identification in a time of invisibility for American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Connolly ◽  
Mehgan Gallagher ◽  
Felicia Hodge ◽  
Mary Cwik ◽  
Victoria O’Keefe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
American Indians ◽  
The United States ◽  
Alaska Natives

scholarly journals Disparities in Cancer Incidence and Trends among American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States, 2010–2015

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (10) ◽  
pp. 1604-1611 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie C. Melkonian ◽  
Melissa A. Jim ◽  
Donald Haverkamp ◽  
Charles L. Wiggins ◽  
Jeffrey McCollum ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
American Indians ◽  
Cancer Incidence ◽  
The United States ◽  
Alaska Natives
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