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articles and interviews
"Native American Mental Health and the IHS: An Interview with David Edward Walker," Podcast for Voices in Bioethics with host Anne Zimmerman, JD, November 15, 2023
"For Native People, the Past is Present: David Edward Walker on Oppressive Mental Health Practices," Podcast for Mad In America with Host Amy Biancolli, June 7, 2023
"A Case Before the U.S. Supreme Court Could Surge the Psychiatric Labelling and Drugging of Native American Foster Youth," Mad in America, April 8, 2023
"Current & Historical Oppression
in the Mental Health System In Indian Country"
Interview with MK Mendoza, NPR, Santa Fe, NM (2021 "Top of the Rockies" Award
Society of Professional Journalists)
From Ethical Human Psychology & Psychiatry, Spring 2022: "WHO Owns the Language: 'Domination Code' in the Mental Health Gap Action Programme"
Indian Country Today Review: Review of David’s Medicine Valley Novels,
“Tessa’s Dance” and “Signal Peak”
Podcast with writer & healer
Deena Metzger on Rare Bird Radio:
Deena Metzger with David Edward Walker
Interview with David Van Nuys, PhD
on ShrinkRap Radio:
Liberation Psychology and The Resilience of Indigenous People
Interview for Psychology Today
"Rethinking Mental Health"
(Eric Maisel, PhD):
Indigenous People & Western Mental Health
Interview with Will Hall on Madness Radio:
Indian Country Psychology: David Walker
Series for Indian Country Today:
"How the US Mental Health System Makes Natives Sick and Suicidal"
"Lunacy, Crazy Indians & the Witch's Hammer"
"‘A Living Burial’: Inside the Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians"
"Betrayal by Labels: The Feebleminded, ADHD Native Child"
Chapter for 'Critical New
Perspectives on ADHD' (Routledge):
"ADHD as the New 'Feeblemindedness' of American Indian Children"
Article with Albert Galves, PhD for
Ethical Human Psychology & Psychiatry:
"Debunking the Science Behind ADHD as a 'Brain Disorder'"