Irene S Vernon

Biographic Data

ID459336
NAMEIrene S Vernon
GIVEN NAMESIrene S
FAMILY NAMEVernon
SIGNATUREVERNON I S
AFFILIATIONSColorado State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS8
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX2

  • Rap about Clap

    Open AccessRoe Bubar, Donna Rouner et al.ARTICLEAmerican Indian Culture and…2015

    This qualitative study explores American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) youth’s knowledge and access to health information about sexually transmitted diseases and sexually transmitted infections (STDs/STIs). Focus groups and community-based participatory research practices contributed to engaging with youth ages fourteen to twenty-one from two Western tribal communities as well as tribal professionals. Results indicate that tribal youth differed by…

  • Closing the Gap

    Irene S Vernon, Trudie JacksonARTICLEEthnic studies review2013

    Objectives: To explore health research needs of American Indian and Native Hawaiian (AIINH) transgender individuals. Methods: This qualitative study is composed of four focus groups and one informal meeting, totaling 42 AIINH transgender individuals in four major cities. The theoretical and methodological approaches combined grounded theory with the principles of community based participatory research. Results: Healthcare and resiliency are two m…

  • We Were Those Who Walked out of Bullets and Hunger

    Irene S Vernon, Irene S Vernon Irene S VernonARTICLEThe American Indian Quarterly2012Cited by: 1References: 6

  • We Were Those Who Walked out of Bullets and Hunger

    Irene S VernonARTICLEThe American Indian Quarterly2012Cited by: 2

    We Were Those Who Walked out of Bullets and Hunger"Representation of Trauma and Healing in "Solar Storms" Irene S. Vernon (bio) Physical pain has no voice, but when it at last finds a voice, it begins to tell a story. Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain Scholars Kalí Tal and Cathy Caruth express the importance of trauma literature as "the need to tell and retell the story of the traumatic experience, to make it ‘real’ both to the victim and to the co…

  • Native American Women and HIV/Aids

    Irene S Vernon, Irene S Vernon Irene S Vernon et al.ARTICLEThe American Indian Quarterly2009References: 1

    Native American Women and HIV/AIDSBuilding Healthier Communities Irene S. Vernon (bio) and Pamela Jumper Thurman (bio) I think the most important issue we have as a people is what we started, and that is to begin to trust our own thinking again and believe in ourselves enough to think that we can articulate our own vision of the future and then work to make sure that that vision becomes a reality. Wilma Mankiller, “Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation”…

  • Social Life And Issues (Contemporary Native American Issues)

    Irene S Vernon, Roe BubarBOOKSocial Life And Issues…2005

  • A Happiness That Sleeps with Sadness

    Irene S VernonARTICLEThe American Indian Quarterly2005References: 2

    A prolific and popular writer, James Welch has captured the attention of both Native and non-Native readers since his first publication of poems, Riding the Earthboy 40, in 1971. Welch continued to dazzle and captivate his readers into the twenty-first century with several highly acclaimed novels presenting stories about tribal lives and culture in both the past and present until his untimely death in 2003. He mesmerized his audience through his …

  • Violence, HIV/Aids, and Native American Women in the Twenty-First Century

    Open AccessIrene S VernonARTICLEAmerican Indian Culture and…2002

    Kashka instinctively thought back to the night in late November when her husband had gone to his cousin's house and gotten drunk, come home and wanted to have sex. She told him he was too drunk and that she was not interested. In his drunken state, he became angry and left the house. The next morning, on her way to work, she saw her husband coming out of Johnny's house. Everyone in the village knew that Johnny was HIV positive and sexually active…

  • Killing Us Quietly

    Open AccessIrene S Vernon, Irene VernonBOOKKilling Us Quietly2001Cited by: 3

    Over the past five centuries, waves of diseases have ravaged and sometimes annihilated Native American communities. The latest of these silent killers is HIV/AIDS. The first book to detail the devastating impact of the disease on Native Americans, Killing Us Quietly fully and minutely examines the epidemic and its social and cultural consequences among three groups in three geographical areas. Through a series of personal narratives, the book als…

  • Facts and Myths of Aids and Native American Women

    Open AccessIrene S VernonARTICLEAmerican Indian Culture and…2000Cited by: 2

    INTRODUCTION\nThe standing of women in traditional Native societies varied from tribe to tribe. In many tribes women held positions of political, social, military, and spiritual leadership. They had the right to choose marriage partners, divorce, own land and property, as well as take critical roles in trade, home life, acculturation, assimilation, and political activism. In sum, Native women have been found to have egalitarian roles within their…

  • Insights on HIV/Aids

    Irene S Vernon, Rosenda Reins Production et al.ARTICLEWicazo Sa Review1999

  • Aids

    Irene S VernonARTICLEWicazo Sa Review1999

    This fine fellow sat in his wigwam and watched every one of his family die about him, his wives and his little children, after he had recovered from the disease himself; when he walked out, around the village, and wept over the final destruction of his tribe; his braves and warriors, whose sinewy arms alone he could depend on for a continuance of their existence, all laid low; when he came back to his lodge, where he covered his whole family in a…

  • The Claiming of Christ

    Irene S VernonARTICLEMELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…1999References: 1

    Journal Article The Claiming of Christ: Native American Postcolonial Discourses Get access Irene S. Vernon Irene S. Vernon Colorado State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 24, Issue 2, June 1999, Pages 75–88, https://doi.org/10.2307/467700 Published: 01 June 1999