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    "pk": 4817,
    "title": "“N8Vs Be Like…”: Processes of Authenticating Modern Indigenous Identities within Electronic Communal Spaces",
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    "abstract": "<p>Textual bricolages, colloquially known as memes (along with other highly textualized media), have come to communicate a vast array of political and ideational alignments among interlocutors who consort through media transferals on social media platforms. Here I focus specifically on how particular memes are strategically constructed and distributed through social media as transferable and transmutable markers of identity capable of establishing and distilling an insider group membership among culturally competent interlocutors while simultaneously establishing outsider status to those for whom the texts remain opaque or meaningless. While memes are often used to establish social and ideological alignments, the textual composites I consider here are constructed from semiotic resources which are relevant to, and indexical of, Native North American identities. I compare memes and other texts that are representative examples of how identity work is conducted through tactics of intersubjectivity within electronic spaces. I submit that these compound texts represent sites of resistance to hegemonic discourses by cultivating groups of belonging within a visible public realm. Because prevailing discourses that insist on the disappearance of Indigenous peoples from sites of colonial interest endure, these Indigenous created counternarratives, constructed within highly modern social spaces, are a powerful means for reclaiming authorship of representation and interrupting the established discourse of failure and disappearance. I show that, despite a dominant discourse that insists on the impossibility of a modern indigeneity, the creation of Indigenous memes for social media is actually part of ongoing collaborative projects of resistance—irrefutable evidence of ever-emergent modern Native American identities.</p>",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0",
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        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Native American"
        },
        {
            "word": "identity work"
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        {
            "word": "memes"
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        {
            "word": "social media"
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Christina",
            "middle_name": "Laree",
            "last_name": "Newhall",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Arizona",
            "department": "Linguistics"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2023-10-29T05:40:33.976000+05:30",
    "date_accepted": "2024-11-15T03:07:34.801000+05:30",
    "date_published": "2025-03-03T23:30:00+05:30",
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