Collective Memories and Collective Identities: Maintaining Unity in Native American Educational Social Movements

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 483-520

  Gongaware, Timothy B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LA CROSSE   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective identity; Collective memory; Ethnography; Narrative commemoration; Social movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141481792     PISSN: 08912416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891241603255674     Document Type: Article

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