Imagining Navajo in the boarding school: Laura Tohe's No parole today and the intimacy of language ideologies

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-62

  Webster, Anthony K ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77955669558     PISSN: 10551360     EISSN: 15481395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1395.2010.01047.x     Document Type: Article

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