Sending up signals: A survey of native american1 media use and representation in the mass media

Howard Journal of Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 333-345

  Merskin, Debra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Audiences; Film; Indian; Mass Media; Native American; Stereotypes; Symbolic Annihilation; Television

Indexed keywords

EID: 84933478129     PISSN: 10646175     EISSN: 10964649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/106461798246943     Document Type: Article

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