Armstrong, Jeanette, 1996 "Sharing One Skin" The Okanagan community pg, 460-470 in Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith (eds) The Case Against the global economy, San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books.

Summary: This article talks about the Okanagan Community's beliefs about how things intertwine with each other. But it also says that our body is separated and working with each of the different pieces. So far, it is talking about how everyone is separate in many ways; just because we are different doesn't mean we can work as one. The article also talks about how no one is isolated from family and community, and you cannot be separated from that. The article also talks about the land and how we are also connected to it.

Toastie, B. Oaster (2024 January 24) "How place names impact the way we see landscape, High Country News. https://www.hen.org/issues/54-5/people-places-how-place-names-impact-the-way-we-see-landscape/

Summary: This article barely talks about the names of mountains and how special they are. It also talks about how the name holds a spiritual meaning and how it can heal or has the power of healing. Most of these names are from the Diné, and most of the mountains are named differently. It also talks about how white men name the mountains after certain people, and naming them after them could be holding them back from the afterlife. It also talks about how the mountains hold sacred stories behind them, and that's why they shouldn't be named by white men, because they don't know the stories.

Suina, Joseph H, "and then I went to school." Rethinking Schools, 22 June 2021, rethinking schools.org/articles/and-then-i-went-to-school/. Accessed 08 September 2025. Is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of New Mexico.

Summary: This article is talking about how Joe Suina went to boarding school and how it was back then. Joe was also talking about how he tried to stay between school and his cultural ways. He shared his hardships and how he spoke English instead of Keres and how he would get reprimanded for speaking or doing his doings. He also shared how his community "looked out for him by making him go to school and get a better life in the future. But he also shares how his life used to be simple before the indian school, before all that tension/stress.

King.Patti Jo. ¨Native Americans and HealthCare.¨ The American Mosaic: The American Indian Experience, ABC-CLIO,2025, american indian.absclio.com/Search/Display/1805387. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025

This article primarily discusses the history and improvement of Native American Healthcare. It also shows and talks about which different Acts help acheive this. It also talks about the multitude of struggles Native Americans went throguh and how they had tp adapt to these struggles. The article also mentions certain programs that help improve dieting or just healthy habits with mothers and even the youth. Also explaining what some of these programs do in order to achieve the goal of helping these people. The article also shares some history that couldve let to Native American mental disorders and even health problems.

Smith M, Rink E, Held, Byker Shanks C, Miles MP. The effects of foods available through the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations (FDPIR) on inflammation response, appetite and evergy intake. Public Health Nutr. 2021 Jul;24 (10):3037-3048, doi: 10.1017151368980020002852. Epub2020 Sep 1. 32867882: PMCID: PMC9884777. 

This article is about many things, but its main focus is on the FDPIR and just the effects of it. It also mentions a study or an experiment with the FDPIR and the DGA and shows how bad the FDPIR foods are for the AI/AN communities. It's just basically showing how the FDPIR could be better. The FDPIR foods could also result into other things such as obesity and T2D.

             “Diabetes in Native Communities in the US.” diaTribe Change, diatribechange.org/news/diabetes-native-communities-us.

This article basically talks about how Native Americans have the highest rate of Diabetes. It also talks about how Native Americans went through many struggles. These also lead to the health and mental problems we have today. It just doesnt only mention diabetes, it also mentions other health problems, such as kidney failures, some sort of liver disease that either formed from diabetes or formed into it. Also, it mentions some underlying causes, such as commodities, where the Native Americans lived, and food insecurity.

Fig. 10. Lovato, Jerome "Backyard"-2025

"Polynesian ancestry linked to obesity, heart failure and diabetes in Native Hawaiians." NewsRx Health, 7 Mar. 2021, p. 76. Gale Academic OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A653343539/AONE?u=nm_s_santafeis&sid=ebsco&xid=83c13d2b. Accessed 25 Mar. 2026.

My first article “Polynesian ancestry linked to obesity, diabetes in Native Hawaiians” by Christie Wilson. This article/study mainly focuses on how polynesian ancestry is somehow linked to obesity and diabetes. Even though this article is short it is still packed with a lot of information. Native Hawaiians already have a high rate of chronic diseases, but the genetic ancestry just makes it worse. But even though this study is saying genetic ancestry increases the rate of these diseases that doesn’t mean that it's the only factor that plays into getting these diseases.

Fig. 11. Lovato, Jerome  "Hay Bale"- 2025

“Socioeconomic Inequalities and Diabetes Complications: An Analysis of Administrative Data From Hungary.” European Journal of Public Health, vol. 35, no. 4, 598–604, Apr. 2025.

My second article, “Socioeconomic inequalities and diabetes complications: an analysis of administrative data from Hungary” by Peter Elek, Balázs Mayer, and Orsolya Varga. This article talks about an analysis of the complications and data about diabetes in Hungary. It also includes other things like information and statistics about how many people inhabit Hungary and how much of these people deal with complications with health issues and diabetes. This study also shows how many variables go into these complications. They could range from people not wanting to go, to people not being able to afford “the good life” and getting healthier. As the world evolved so have the complications with getting healthcare and what not. This article/study has so much valuable information on its problems with its healthcare and how the people think and how they are.

Fig. 12. Lovato, Jerome ¨kewa sunset¨”2024

“A Multi-Site Qualitative Study to Explore and Understand  Barriers and Enablers Indigenous Community Members Ex- perience when Accessing Health and Social Services, from the  Perspective of Indigenous Patient Navigators and Indigenous Community Members in Canada.” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INDIGENOUS HEALTH, vol. 20, no. 2, Jan. 2025.

My third article “A Multi-Site Qualitative Study to Explore and Understand Barriers and Enablers Indigenous Community Members Experience when Accessing Health and Social Services, from the Perspective of Indigenous Patient Navigators and Indigenous Community Members in Canada” by Aric Rankin, Andrea Baumann, Bernice Downey, Ruta Valaitis, Amy Montour, Pat Mandy, and Danielle Bourque Bearskin. This article/study talks about its own native communities dealing with diabetes and all the complications that come with it. It includes much information on the topic of Canadian health and how the indigenous people have barriers with the many health services provided to them. This whole article is basically a data collections type of thing. But in the data it includes the customs of the indigenous peoples and how they have traditions and what not and those traditions may include food that isn't so good for diabetes. The study revealed 7 main issues/barriers with accessing health. This study also helped get an understanding of the roles of IPNs. But the only thing it failed in capturing was the individual views of indigenous communities.