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.

Coyotes hold a peculiar interest as both an enduring symbol of the wild and a powerful predator we are always anxious to avoid. This book examines the spread of coyotes across the country over the past century, and the storm of concern and controversy that has followed. Individual chapters cover the surprisingly complex question of how to identify a coyote, the real and imagined dangers they pose, their personality and lifestyle, and nondeadly ways of discouraging them.

[Siren Everlasting Classic ManLove: Erotic Romance, Alternative, Paranormal, Shape-shifters, Sex in Shifted Form, MM, HEA] Saving a Fallen Mate - The magic of love… Cowboy Cole Roman never believed in fairy tales until he saves a drowning coyote that turns into a handsome young man. Overjoyed at his good fortune and thrilled to have a mate who gives him the ability to shift into coyote form, Cole vows to protect Lucky. Joshua “Lucky” Green can’t remember his past until his ex-boyfriend shows up determined to finish the job he started. As a man with murder on his mind and a gun to get the job done, Lucky’s ex-boyfriend takes aim, determined to kill Lucky. When Lucky is injured, Cole falls victim to a scheme that saves Lucky’s life, but dooms them to be together but always apart. Can Cole right the wrong, save his mate, and live happily ever after, or will his fairy tale become a nightmare? Indulging a Kinky Mate - The beauty of the beast… Shooting to kill was something Dillion Palmer was used to, but when a beautiful coyote stares him down, he finds himself shifting and claiming the creature as his mate. Micah is everything Dillion has hungered for, but just because they’re eternal mates doesn’t mean their relationship will go smoothly. Micah Grant was compelled to come to the desert, but he never thought he’d find a mate or discover he’s a coyote shifter. When he can’t escape his destiny, he becomes determined to stand his ground and claim his rights. But as he realizes the danger his brothers face, he must put aside what he wants for himself to protect the shifters as a whole. As Dillion and Micah struggle to accept one another, they must also fight multiple threats against their kind. Will Micah and Dillion learn to compromise, or will the cowboy shifters suffer a terrible loss?

This book "is both an environmental and a deep natural history of the coyote. It traces both the five-million-year-long biological story of an animal that has become the wolf in our backyards, as well as its cultural evolution from a preeminent spot in Native American religions to the hapless foil of the Road Runner. A deeply American tale, the story of the coyote in the American West and beyond is a sort of Manifest Destiny in reverse, with a pioneering hero whose career holds up an uncanny mirror to the successes and failures of American expansionism"--Dust jacket flap.

It all began with a dead body, naked and hanging from a tree in the woods, and continues with unprovoked animal attacks in a nearby golf course. What follows has the town residents living in fear of a deadly terror.

Just when the waves finally begin to settle for Chase Weston, an unfortunate visitor decides to take a spontaneous vacation to the States. Haunted by his mistakes and completely unaware of what's in store, he struggles to fight off mental illness, keep his friends alive and his love life intact.