Native American Children and Youth Well-Being Indicators

Discussion of SampleThe majority of the selected documents werewritten by non-Native authors (n = 9), and sixwere written by Native American authors. Thetime span covered by the documents was 1980to 2002, with the majority of the documents writtenafter 2000 (n = 11). The most commonre s e a rch methodologies selected were descriptive(n=13), then quantitative (n=5), and finally qualitadescriptive(n = 13; see Figure 2), and the typeof publication most frequently reviewed wasan article (n = 10; see Figure 3).A variety of specific tribal groups were discussedin the 22 articles, including Chippewa (n=3),Navajo (n=3), Lakota (n=3), and Apache, Omaha,Ottawa, Kiowa, Yaqui, Pima-Maricopa, andPueblo (each n=1). Figure 4 depicts the geographicareas represented in the documents.FI G U R E3. TY P E O F PU B L I C AT I O NRE V I E W E D(N = 22)Newspaper1Informal Document2Dissertation4Book Chapter5Article10Number of DocumentsFI G U R E4. GE O G R A P H I CAR E A RE P R E S E N T E D(N= 2 2 )Great Basin1Plains6Unknown7Southwest8Number of Documents27