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ISBN: 9780874224207

Publication Year: 2023

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Book Title: Coyote's Swing : a Memoir and Critique of Mental Hygiene in Native America

Item Height: 1.1in

Author: David Edward Walker

Item Length: 8.9in

Publisher: Washington STATE University Press

Genre: Psychology, Social Science, Political Science

Topic: General, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Applied Psychology

Item Width: 6in

Number of Pages: 410 Pages

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A Native foster youth brings a completed Pfizer Corporation's "PTSD Self-Quiz" she found in a U.S. Indian Health Service clinic waiting room to her psychologist, hoping a new diagnosis will allow her to discontinue her current stimulant medication. After advocating on her behalf and that of other Native clients in his care, the psychologist is put on a "performance improvement plan" by clinic supervisors. Subsequently, a nurse practitioner at the clinic sends a letter to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services regarding concerns over poor medical care and infection control, only to be transferred out shortly after. Coyote's Swing reveals how the U.S. mental health system reframes Native American reactions to oppression and marginalization into "mental disorders" and "mental illness." Contemporary practices of the Indian Health Service echo historical "Indian lunacy" determinations, false imprisonment in the Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians, stigmatizing of Native children kidnapped to federally- and mission-run boarding schools as "feebleminded," sterilizing of Native people evaluated by white psychologists as "unfit to reproduce," and long-standing doctrines of impairment and deficiency foreign to Native values of spiritual balance and wellbeing. Immersed in this system and its history for two decades, David Edward Walker develops provocative connections between past and present while using a traditional Yakama tale as a motif. Combining narrative ease and a scholar's eye, he exposes how the "white man's Cat" continues to push Coyote, Sacred Trickster, on a "swing" of Western mental health ideology that has threatened Native lives and culture for over 150 years. Coyote's Swing combines Walker's firsthand experiences as a consulting psychologist with rare history and sociocultural critique.

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Publisher

Washington STATE University Press

ISBN-10

0874224209

ISBN-13

9780874224207

eBay Product ID (ePID)

14057249137

Product Key Features

Book Title

Coyote's Swing : a Memoir and Critique of Mental Hygiene in Native America

Author

David Edward Walker

Format

Trade Paperback

Language

English

Topic

General, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Applied Psychology

Publication Year

2023

Genre

Psychology, Social Science, Political Science

Number of Pages

410 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length

8.9in

Item Height

1.1in

Item Width

6in

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Lc Classification Number

E99.Y2w35 2022

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"In the IHS, dissension is often suppressed as blasphemy and whistleblowers are rarely tolerated. Walker is to be commended for his thorough research and timely recommendations for reform of the agency's delivery of mental health services in Indian County...I join him in praying that this period of tribal history comes to an end." --Toobshudud Jack Fiander (Yakama), attorney "A great piece of work... I can't emphasize that enough...Incorporating his personal experiences of adversity and willingness to acclimate into our community was greatly appreciated." --Lucy Smartlowit, MSW (Yakama Mexican), Interim Executive Director, Peacekeeper Society "A tour de force [and] an extraordinary work of heart, spirit, incisive intelligence, and unflinching truth telling. I highly recommend it." --Steven Newcomb (Shawnee-Lenape), author of Pagans in the Promised Land and co-producer of the documentary, "The Doctrine of Discovery" "An engaging and highly informative read that expertly weaves a much-needed counterpoint to the prevailing narratives of the mental health profession." --Dr. Amber Logan, psychologist, public health professional, Indigenous historian, and traditional Kahungunu Maori wahine "A comprehensive account of how Native Americans... continue to be re-traumatized by a U.S. mental health profession that has exacerbated rather than reduced violence, suicide, and substance abuse. Original and compelling." --Bruce E. Levine, author of A Profession Without Reason

Table of Content

Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Cat Brings Coyote's Swing One: Coyote Swings Two: "Who Are You, And Why Are You Here?" Three: A Brief Swing Backwards Part II: Coyote Swings Back & Forth Four: The Disordered Native Five: Oppressive & Genocidal Realities Six: IHS Attempts to Prevent Native Suicide Seven: Border Skirmish Eight: "Being PTSD" Part III: Building Coyote's Swing Nine: Collective Suffering Ten: Exploring the Soul Wound Twelve: Continuance of Their Race Thirteen: My Generational Carry Fourteen: Entering the Asylum Fifteen: Locked Inside Hiawatha: Josephine's Delusions Sixteen: Locked Inside Hiawatha: Emily's Demise Seventeen: Locked Inside Hiawatha: Two Eyewitnesses Eighteen: Locked Inside Hiawatha: The Soldier Nineteen: Today's Indian Asylums Part IV: Dismantling Coyote's Swing Twenty: Hope & Reason

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2022-033510

Dewey Decimal

979.7004974127019

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Trade

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Yes

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