Resisting Marginalization: Social Networks and "Communication Communities" of Urban Blackfoot Teenage Girls

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  • Paul G. Letkemann University of Lethbridge

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urban First Nations, youth, social networks, community, identity

Abstract

In this article, I attempt to show the ways in which Native youth can play an essential part in the realization of community for urban First Nations people. I do this by focusing on the extensive social networks sustained by teenage girls, to explore the ways in which they serve as a means of communication linking adults and teens in physically dispersed house holds in the context of the city. Based on over 32 months of participant observation of an urban Blackfoot family in Lethbridge, Alberta, this case study shows how such interconnections serve to mitigate various forms of marginalization by creating and maintaining a sense of place in a community.

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2022-06-30

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Letkemann, P. G. (2022). Resisting Marginalization: Social Networks and "Communication Communities" of Urban Blackfoot Teenage Girls. Anthropologica, 51(1), 239–250. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/2552