FELTARBEJDE OM ETNISK IDENTITET: Et canadisk indiansk samfund i 1990’eme

Resumé

Niels Winther Braroe: Fieldwork on

Ethnic Identity: A Canadian Indian

Community in the 1990’s

This article describes some obstacles to

fieldwork in a Plains Cree Indian com-munity.

The research is a continuation of study

begun in the 1960’s, after an absence of

twenty-five years. Two areas of “trouble” are

discussed. The first has to do with the effects

of a book about the community published by

the author; the second set of difficulties

results from newly emergent factional

divisions on the reserve. Both of these are

relevant to the author’s interest in changing

expressions of ethnic identity of the band,

and political and economic changes associated

with a new Indian cultural self-image.

The author describes some approaches taken

to negotiate these obstacles.