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Narrative Remains: Articulating Indian Identities in the Repatriation Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2005

Greg Johnson
Greg Johnson
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University of Colorado at Boulder
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This article pursues two basic agendas. My primary purpose is to explore the contours of repatriation language as spoken by Native Americans directly participating in repatriation processes. To this end, I argue that a first step entails a critical assessment of the terms and assumptions by which repatriation discourse is framed by observers, participant observers included. Therefore, the first section of this article works toward a critical theory of repatriation discourse, with particular reference to religious language and narratives of identity. I make a case for approaching repatriation discourse as a rhetorical field. Questions I ask include: Who speaks? Under what constraints? With what possibilities? Addressing these questions, among others, I advocate an analytical approach to repatriation that is both specific and frank in exploring the ways group boundaries are shaped and reshaped through narrative.

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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 47 , Issue 3 , July 2005 , pp. 480 - 506
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© 2005 Society for Comparative Study of Society and History

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