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Wilkes, Rima. "Defining a Social Movement: Indigenous Political Mobilization in Canada and the U.S." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco, CA,, Aug 14, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p108698_index.html>

Wilkes, R. , 2004-08-14 "Defining a Social Movement: Indigenous Political Mobilization in Canada and the U.S." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Hilton San Francisco & Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco, CA, Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p108698_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Despite the fact that indigenous peoples in both Canada and the US have engaged in political mobilization there have been few, if any, attempts to compare between the two countries. In this paper I provide this comparison and assess how the two cases are similar or different in terms of the four criteria for a social movement: a purposeful political challenge; multiple instances of collective action with non-institutional tactics, the role of social movement organizations and networks and collective identity. I conclude that while the Red Power Movement in the United States met all four criteria, the mobilization in Canada only met two. This is likely one of the reasons why the former is generally considered to be a national social movement while the latter is not. Implications in terms of how we define social movements are discussed.

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