85

Table 4-11: Interview responses of high and low TAP user groups for question measuring
 normative beliefs, Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma, 2005.
 Low TAP user High TAP user
# of participants 9 25
Supporters of traditional farming** *(7) other farmers (6)nobody
 (5)neighbors
 (3) don't know
 (3) community
* depicts actual number or participants with this response, some participants
provided multiple reasons which are also included here
**only practices listed two or more times total by user group participants are listed

 Low TAP users said that other farmers support traditional farming in their

community. High TAP users said that nobody, neighbors, and community support

traditional farming. Three high TAP users said that they did not know who supported

traditional farming in their community.

Traditional Self-Identity

 I used three items in the index to determine each participant's traditional self-

identity score. I used mean scores for analysis of traditional self-identity. I removed one

participant's response from the analysis due to high level of missing data. There were no

missing datum points among other participants.

 I ran a Mann-Whitney U test to determine if there was a difference between groups.

There was no significant difference between high TAP user and low TAP user groups

traditional self identity (z=0.18, p=0.41, a = 0.05). (Table 4-7 and Appendix E, Figure

4).

Modern Self-Identity

 I used nine items in the index to determine each participant's modem self-identity

score. I used mean scores for analysis of modern self-identity. I removed two

participant's responses from the analysis. One participant's responses had high levels of

missing data. The other participant responded to this index as not applicable. This was