To Be Indian: The Life of Iroquois-Seneca Arthur Caswell Parker (review)

Clark, D. Anthony Tyeeme

doi:10.1353/ail.2005.0067

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“…The term continues to appear in more recent work (e.g. Clark 2012; Brandt & Smith 2013), although Hertzberg (1971:291) suggests that the term is ‘seldom used by Pan-Indians, except by a few anthropologists and other intellectuals’. Even so, the underlying notion is strongly held in contemporary Native America (Shoemaker 1988; Nagel 1996), even if it is expressed in other ways, such as the commonly used terms Native and Indian Country .…”

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‘The rez accent knows no borders’: Native American ethnic identity expressed through English prosody

Newmark¹,

Walker²,

Stanford

2016

Lang. Soc.

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In many Native American and Canadian First Nations communities, indigenous languages are important for the linguistic construction of ethnic identity. But because many younger speakers have limited access to their heritage languages, English may have an even more important role in identity construction than Native languages do. Prior literature shows distinctive local English features in particular tribes. Our study builds on this knowledge but takes a wider perspective: We hypothesize that certain features are shared across much larger distances, particularly prosody. Native cultural insiders (the first two co-authors) had a central role in this project. Our recordings of seventy-five speakers in three deliberately diverse locations (Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, North/South Dakota; Northwest Territories, Canada; and diverse tribes represented at Dartmouth College) show that speakers are heteroglossically performing prosodic features to index Native ethnic identity. They have taken a ‘foreign’ language (English) and enregistered these prosodic features, creatively producing and reproducing a shared ethnic identity across great distances. (Native Americans, prosody, ethnicity, ethnic identity, English, dialects)*

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