Beyond two worlds: Identity narratives and the aspirational futures of Alaska Native youth

L Trout, L Wexler, J Moses - Transcultural Psychiatry, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Indigenous communities across the Alaskan Arctic have experienced profound revisions of
livelihood, culture, and autonomy over the past century of colonization, creating radical …

“Being responsible, respectful, trying to keep the tradition alive:” Cultural resilience and growing up in an Alaska Native community

L Wexler, L Joule, J Garoutte… - Transcultural …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Indigenous circumpolar youth are experiencing challenges of growing up in a context much
different from that of their parents and their grandparents due to rapid and imposed social …

Looking across three generations of Alaska Natives to explore how culture fosters indigenous resilience

L Wexler - Transcultural psychiatry, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Research has established connection between indigenous culture—often described in
terms of cultural identity, enculturation, and participation in traditional activities—and …

“Where I have to learn the ways how to live:” Youth resilience in a Yup'ik village in Alaska

SM Rasmus, J Allen, T Ford - Transcultural Psychiatry, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
What is it like to grow up Yup'ik and come of age today in a traditional hunting-gathering
community setting located in a remote region of Alaska? Current research describes a …

Navigating between two the worlds of school and 'being on the land': Arctic Indigenous young people, structural violence, cultural continuity and selfhood

IR Salusky, M Kral, B Amarok… - Journal of Youth Studies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This qualitative study examines two contexts shaping circumpolar Indigenous young
people's contemporary lives. In Arctic North America, the recent, rapid experiences of …

Lived challenges and getting through them: Alaska Native youth narratives as a way to understand resilience

L Wexler, K Jernigan, J Mazzotti… - Health promotion …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Because of imposed rapid social change, Alaska Native youth are growing up in a context
different from their elders and suffering far worse health and behavioral outcomes. This …

“It's like having strong roots. We're firmly planted”: Cultural identity development among Alaska Native University students

SL Buckingham, JR Hutchinson - Transcultural Psychiatry, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Cultural identity is associated with positive emotional and behavioral health. However,
colonialism and its forces, past and present, have led to cultural loss in many Indigenous …

Mapping resilience pathways of Indigenous youth in five circumpolar communities

J Allen, K Hopper, L Wexler, M Kral… - Transcultural …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
This introduction to the Special Issue Indigenous Youth Resilience in the Arctic reviews
relevant resilience theory and research, with particular attention to Arctic Indigenous youth …

Pacing climate precarity: Food, care and sovereignty in Iñupiaq Alaska

PJ Griffin - Medical anthropology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
At what pace do storytellers represent climate change in the “rapidly changing” Arctic?
Popular and scholarly narratives of Indigenous vulnerability too often address climate …

Central role of relatedness in Alaska Native youth resilience: Preliminary themes from one site of the Circumpolar Indigenous Pathways to Adulthood (CIPA) study

L Wexler, J Moses, K Hopper, L Joule… - American Journal of …, 2013 - Springer
This qualitative study of youth resilience takes place in an Alaska Native community, which
has undergone rapid, imposed social change over the last three generations. Elders, and …