The United Houma Nation in the U.S. Congress: Corporations, communities, and the politics of federal acknowledgement

Urban Anthropology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 85-124

  Moberg, Mark ^a   Moberg, Tawnya Sesi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL IDENTITY; FEDERAL SYSTEM; POLITICS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 17844379500     PISSN: 08946019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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