"MY GREAT-GREAT-GRANDMOTHER WAS A CHEROKEE PRINCESS" ETHNIC BOUNDARIES IN POWWOW DISCOURSE

Authors

  • Guillermo Bartelt California State University, Northridge, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejals.v4i2.324

Keywords:

contested American Indian identity, rhetorical indirectness, ethnography of speaking

Abstract

This ethnography of speaking offers an interpretive analysis of the cognitive and social functions of a discourse delivered publicly by the emcee of an American Indian dance gathering called powwow, during which assertions of a quasi-native identity made by white Americans are indirectly contested for not meeting specific expectations such as membership in an officially recognized Indian tribe.

Author Biography

  • Guillermo Bartelt, California State University, Northridge, USA
    Guillermo Bartelt is a sociolinguist who has focused his ethnographic and linguistic research on American Indian communities.

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2022-03-15

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Vol. 4 No. 2 (2022)

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