Annual Report 2017

To collaborate with American Indian peoples, Nations,

Communities, and organizations to improve the physical, mental,

emotional, and spiritual well-being of American Indians

throughout the United States through quality participatory

research and education.

Our Mission:

Joshuaa Allison-Burbank (Acoma Pueblo and Diné) Aspen Bell (Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho) Christine Daley Sean Daley Oliver Doerr Ryan Goeckner Coreen Gunja Jordyn Gunville (Mnicoujou Lakota) Jason Hale (Prairie Band Potawatomi) Charley Lewis (Utu Utu Gwaitu Paiute and Diné) Crystal Lumpkins (Choctaw) Joseph Pacheco (Cherokee of Oklahoma and Quechua of Bolivia) Dasy Resendiz Ed Smith (Osage)

Who is AIHREA?

Carson Hagen Carl Molle Tinaya Murphy

Kordell McReeves

Darrell Hill

AIHREA, Inc. Scholarships      AIHREA, Inc, focuses on providing scholarship opportunities to American Indian students.   We have three scholarship programs including scholarships for graduate and undergraduate students wanting to work with American Indian communities, pursuing degrees in the fine arts, or Native students in the University of Kansas Language Acquisition Program.

This year's scholarship recipients included:     •   Carson Hagen (Crow Creek Sioux, Chickasaw)     •   Darrell Hill (Oneida)          University of Iowa, Business and Communications     •   Carl Molle (Cherokee)          University of Missouri Kansas City     •   Tinaya Murphy (Diné)          Johnson County Community College, Nursing     •   Kordell McReeves (Diné)          Haskell Indian Nations University,          Environmental  Sciences   For more information about how you or someone you know can apply to AIHREA, Inc., for scholarships, visit www.AIHREA.org/Scholarships today!

Community Outreach in Kansas     In 2017, AIHREA continued to work with the American Indian community in Kansas.  AIHREA team members traveled to several communities for events including:

    •   Education on bullying and healthy relationships at            the Kickapoo Boys & Girls Club Basketball Clinic     •   Youth outreach at the Prairie Band Potawatomi                 Boys & Girls Club     •   Tables at both Kickapoo and Prairie Band                           powwows

     Additionally, to support health and wellness in the Native community, AIHREA sponsored several sports teams this year.  The two teams we sponsored this year included:

   •   The basketball team BadNationz that competed at            the Native American Basketball Invitational    •   The softball team Natives with Skillz

Working with Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Youth       AIHREA has partnered with the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe (CRST) Title I Program since the summer of 2013 to work with young people in the CRST community.  This year's interns, Crystal Bradshaw (Osage, Cherokee-University of Kansas), River Gunville (Mnicoujou Lakota-Creighton University) and Nya Smith (Osage, Diné- Shawnee Mission South), with the assistance of AIHREA staff mentors, planned a variety of fun health and wellness activities with the kids and the greater CRST community.

This Year's Activities Included:      •   Tie dye AIHREA t-shirts      •   Jewelry making      •   Mental health carnival      •   "Me Books"      •   AIHREA Wopila Wacipi      •   Youth basketball clinic      •   Family college night         We also recruited for two of our studies.  The Mental Health and Addiction Survey is helping us to better understand mental health and addiction problems facing American Indian communities.   Results will help us to develop programs to address these problems in the future.  CRST helped us recruit 400 community members!     We also recruited for Telephone Based All Nations Breath of Life.  This program is based on our successful All Nations Breath of Life program.  We recruited over 30 participants from CRST!

     AIHREA member Joshuaa Allison-Burbank had a very busy 2017!  In June, Josh traveled to the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation with AIHREA team members and interns to conduct developmental screenings in Eagle Butte, SD.  He screened about 20 kids who would be starting kindergarten in the fall!

     In August, Josh took a group of students from the University of Kansas Medical Center to Horton, KS, and conducted developmental screenings at the Kickapoo Health Fair.  He also assisted at the AIHREA November Community Research Forum and Powwow.  He provided education about hearing loss prevention to attendees.  At the end of the year, he attended a developmental screening clinic on autism in Mayetta, KS.  As the lead speech-language pathologist for the event, he led a parent education training that morning.

Developmental Screenings for Native Youth

Where can you learn about AIHREA all year-round?

You can find AIHREA on a variety of social media platforms and our website!  Visit to learn more about our research,

upcoming events, and community outreach!

www.AIHREA.org

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Our Nations' Energies Powwow

     The AIHREA O.N.E. (Our Nations' Energies) 11th Annual Powwow at Johnson County Community College was a huge success!  The event attracted over 2,000 people throughout the weekend for a wonderful showcase of American Indian cultures.  Our primary care screening clinic had its highest participation on record!  This year's powwow was also our most successful for research because of high participation in our surveys and recruitment for our new telephone-based All Nations Breath of Life quit smoking program.  Our powwow once again hosted many of the top dancers and singers from around the country,  The annual AIHREA powwow event has become the largest gathering of American Indian and First Nations peoples in the Kansas City metro area.

Etkwagēk Mawttėshnowėn "Fall Gathering" Powwow

     During 2017, AIHREA hosted its 6th Annual Etkwagēk Mawttėshnowėn "Fall Gathering" Powwow and Community Research Forum in Mayetta, KS.  This year's event included a mental health carnival with raffle prizes available to participants, in addition to our contest powwow. 

     Topics on which we focused included suicide prevention, addiction, healthy relationships, and stress management.

Art and Culture Extravaganza

     The Second Annual AIHREA American Indian Art and Culture Extravaganza was a great success!  Indian Santa made his yearly trip to Johnson County Community College and even helped with our dance demonstration.  AIHREA team members presented on seasonal celebrations and activities highlighting the rich diversity of indigenous communities.  Proceeds from our silent auction will help fund AIHREA scholarships for Native students.

Quit Chewing Tobacco Program Results     Our quit smokeless tobacco program, All Nations Snuff Out Smokeless (ANSOS), completed recruitment in 2017!  ANSOS was developed with the help of Native community members.  It is a group-based program that lasts 12 weeks and provides information about how to successfully quit.  We ran groups in Kansas, Missouri, South Dakota, and Montana.  We were able to help 128 people who currently used chewing tobacco to try to quit.  Our results are in the table above.

Maternal Child Health Survey

     In 2017, AIHREA partner the Center for American Indian Community Health (CAICH) at the University of Kansas Medical Center sponsored a research project focusing on maternal child health.  The purpose of the project was to understand pregnancy and birth experiences of American Indian women and early infant health with the goal of developing programs to improve them. We recruited over 200 women to complete a  survey in Colorado, Kansas, and South Dakota.  Results will be available soon!

Contemporary American Indian Identity

     Since 2011, AIHREA team members have been working on an ambitious study to understand contemporary American Indian identity.  As the first of its kind, this study set out to recruit 648 American Indians from around the country to complete a short survey and brief interview about what being indigenous means to them.  In 2015, we completed recruitment with 737 individuals completing the survey and 634 individuals completing both the survey and interview.

     In 2017, we began working on analyses of both the surveys and interviews.  With much more analysis ahead of us, we have come to some preliminary findings.  First, we plotted every American Indian Nation that was represented by our participants.  The map above shows the resulting distribution that includes 131 unique Nations that were represented in this project!  Next, we arrived at several themes.  Some of those include:

    •   Participants had conflicting views of Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood cards                citing benefits such as the Indian Health Service and problems caused by blood                quantum as a definer of "Indianness."     •   Important influences on individuals' identities included spirituality and family.     •   Participants listed things like cultural knowledge, family relationships, and pride in            culture as defining characteristics of being American Indian.

     We have a long way to go to finish analyzing this data, so stay tuned for more updates!  We are hoping to publish a book based on what we learned.     

Health Communications Study

     In 2017, AIHREA started a project to understand the roles of health promoters in American Indian communities.  This project is led by CAICH faculty member Dr. Crystal Lumpkins and is focused on understanding how leaders in American Indian communities can effectively communicate health information to community members to improve health.  In the coming months, we will be talking with leaders from the four tribes in Kansas and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, as well as the urban communities of Kansas City and Lawrence, KS.  We look forward to hearing all they have to say about ways they can serve as health communicators!

     Baird M, Bimali M, Cott A, Brimacombe M, Ruhland-Petty T, Daley CM (2017) Methodological challenges in conducting research with refugee women.  Issues in Mental Health Nursing 38(4):344-51.

     Daley CM, Hale JW, Berryhill K, Bointy S, Clark L, Chase B, LeMaster J, He J (2017) Diabetes self-management behaviors among American Indians in the Midwestern United States.  ARC Journal of Diabetes and Endocrinology 3(1):34-41.

    Daley CM, Daley SM, Nazir N, Pacheco C, Filippi MK, Smith TE, McKinney D, Talawyma M, Gunville J, McCloskey C, Greiner KA, Choi WS (2017) Feasibility of Implementing the All Nations Breath of Life Culturally Tailored Smoking Cessation Program for American Indians in Multi-Tribal Urban Communities. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, ePub ahead of print Feb 8.

     Daley SM, Qing Y, McFarlane W, Daley CM, and Gajewski B (2017) The Development of a Pre-Test and Post-Test Assessment Survey for an Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Course.  National Social Science Journal 48(1):19-30.

     Lumpkins, CY & Daley, CM (2017) Community based participatory research with African American men in faith-based populations: An opportunity to design innovative and impactful qualitative public health communication research studies.  SAGE Research Methods Cases Part 2.

     Pacheco CM, Wellever A, Nazir N, Pacheco J, Berryhill K, Faseru B, Barnes C, Daley CM, Choi WS (2017) Clearing the Air: American Indian Tribal College Students’ Exposure to Secondhand Smoke and Attitudes towards Smoke Free Campus Policies.  Journal of American College Health, ePub ahead of print Nov 7.

     Rollins K, Lewis C, Goeckner R, Pacheco J, Smith TE, Hale J, Daley SM, Choi WS, Daley CM. American Indian Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs About Smokeless Tobacco: A Comparison of Two Focus Group Studies. Journal of community health. 2017; 42(6):1133-1140. 

     Rollins K, Pacheco C, Filippi MK, Daley SM, Nazir N, Lewis C, Choi WS, and Daley CM (2017) American Indian Tribal College Student’s Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs about Recreational and Traditional Tobacco Use.  Juniper Online Journal of Public Health 2(1):1-6.

     Wick J, Berry SM, Yeh HW, Choi W, Pacheco CM, Daley C, Gajewski BJ. A Novel Evaluation of Optimality for Randomized Controlled Trials. Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics. 2017; 27(4):659-672.

     Daley CM, Hale J, Berryhill K, Bointy S, Clark L, Chase B, LeMaster, J, He J (2017) Diabetes self-management behaviors among American Indians in the Midwest. The Diabetes Educator.

   Berryhill K, Hale J, Clark L, Chase B, He J, Daley CM (2018) Food security and diet among American Indians in the Midwest. Journal of Community Health (In Press).

     Allison-Burbank, J. (2017, November). Fostering Systemic Change in Tribal Communities to Address High Rates of Developmental Disabilities. Tribal and IndigenousEarly Childhood Network from at the National Association for the Education of Young Children Annual Convention, Atlanta, GA.

    Allison-Burbank, J., Stewart, T., Hagen, C., & Pierce, M. (2017, November). ASHA, Do You Hear Native Voices? American Speech Language Hearing Association Convention, Los Angeles, CA.

    Allison-Burbank, J., Rodriguez, B., Guiberson, M., and Mueller, V. (2017, November). Infusing Cultural and Linguistic Competency Training intoCSD Curricula. American Speech Language Hearing Association Convention, Los Angeles, CA.

    Allison-Burbank, J., Neenan, L., & Hagen, C. (2017, November). Building Capacity in Kansas Tribal Communities to Address Developmental Disabilities. American Speech Language Hearing Association Convention, Los Angeles, CA.

    Allison-Burbank, J. (2017, September). Fostering Systemic Change in Kansas Tribal Communities to Address Developmental Disabilities. Native Children’s Research Exchange Annual Convention, Denver, CO.

    Allison-Burbank, J., Neenan, L., & Hagen, C. (2017, March). Empowering Kansas Tribal Communities to Improve Health in American Indian Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs Annual Convention (AMCHP), Kansas City, MO.

    Allison-Burbank, J., Girolamo, T., Indar, K., & Williams, B. (2017, October). Our voices count and our story matters: An open discussion of multicultural experiences at KU. University of Kansas Child Language Doctoral Program Pro-seminar.

    Avila, M., Begay-Vining, C., Gulaid, A., Diambou, V., & Allison-Burbank, J. (2017, November). Moving Beyond Deficits: Understanding the Social Determinants of Health and Equity. Pre-Conference Short Course at Association of University Centers on Disabilities Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.

   Anderson, E, Daley SM, Edwards, T, and Marshall, C (2017) Roundtable on Teaching Indigenous Peoples’ History.  Kansas Association of Historians: 91st Annual Conference.  Overland Park, Kansas.

    Goeckner RT (2017) Hybridity on the Plains: Catholic Understandings of the White Buffalo Calf Woman Narrative. Graduate Student Conference in Religious Studies, University of North Carolina – Charlotte, Charlotte, NC.

  Goeckner RT (2017) Hybridity on the Plains: Catholic Understandings of the White Buffalo Calf Woman Narrative.  Graduate Research Competition, University of Kansas – Lawrence, KS.

  Greb, R. & Allison-Burbank, J. (2017, May). Do not consume if the seal is broken: A qualitative study. LEND Trainee Research Forum, Kansas City, KS.

Publications Oral Presentations     Gunville JA, Pacheco JA, Berryhill K, Wilkie C, Daley CM (2017) A Breast Cancer Health Literacy Scale for American Indians.  Susan G. Komen for the Cure Annual GDTR Conference: Atlanta, GA.

    Gunville JA, Wilkie C, Berryhill K, Pacheco J, Daley CM (2017) Development of a breast cancer health literacy measure for American Indians.  Tenth AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved: Atlanta, GA.

   Lumpkins, C., Hale, J., Lewis, C., Gunville, J., & Berryhill, K. (2017, Oct). “Addressing Health Disparities among American Indian/Native Populations: A Look at Collaborative Work between the Center for American Indian Community Health (CAICH) and Tribal Communities”. Heartland Health Equity Conference, Kansas City, KS.

   Morgan, E., Hernandez, M, Pang, Y., & Allison- Burbank, J. (2017, November). Utilizing Cultural Brokering in Diverse Communities to Support Families with Children with Disabilities. Panel Presentation at Association of University Centers on Disabilities Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.

   Neenan, L. & Allison-Burbank, J. (2017, March). Kansas Tribal Developmental Disabilities Needs Assessment: Preliminary Findings. LEND Trainee Research Forum, Kansas City, KS.

     Soap, J., Hale, J., Allison-Burbank, J., Rios, N. (2017, August). Working with Tribes Effectively: A Panel on Cultural Competency. Panel Presentation at the 2017 Kansas Tribal Health Summit, Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, KS.

     Smith, T.E. (2017, November) Wa.zha.zhe I.e. History of the Osage Language…and a Future. Missouri Historical Society, Jefferson City, MO.

     Voelmle, K. & Allison-Burbank, J. (2017, November). Strategies for Fostering Health Literacy through Family Resiliency and Shared Storybook Reading in Early Childhood. Association of University Centers on Disabilities Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.

     Voelmle, K., Fierro, V., & Allison-Burbank, J. (2017, November). Adapting Shared Storybook Reading for Young Children from Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds. American Speech Language Hearing Association Convention, Los Angeles, CA.

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