Lecture4;5
--An oral or written “utterance” has meaning, only if and when it
communicates a who and a what .
--"Who" means a socially-situated identity, the “kind of person” one is seeking to be and enact here and now.
--"what " means a socially-situated activity that the utterance helps to constitute.
--Who's can be multiple and they need not always be people.
--An utterance can be authored, authorized by, or issued by a group or a single individual.
--whos and whats are not really discrete and separable.
--language is integrated with “other stuff” (other people, objects, values, times and places).
--3-The term “real Indian” is, of course, an “insiders’ term.”
--4-The problem of “recognition and being recognized” is very consequential and problematic for Native Americans.
--5-Being a “real Indian” is not something one can simply be.
--doing - being-and-becoming-a-“real-Indian” is not something that one can do all by oneself. It requires the participation of others.