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Respondents from both user groups said that they consider themselves as both traditional

and modem farmers because they use both types of practices.

 Three of the seven variables used to evaluate how well the theory of planned

behavior explains Cherokee farmers' use of TAP are significant differences between user

groups (a = 0.05). Three of the measured TPB (Table 4-7). Attitudes (p=0.01),

subjective norms (p=0.03), and modern self-identity (p=0.01) differed between high and

low TAP user groups. High TAP users had a more positive attitude toward traditional

farming than low users. High TAP users had higher subjective norms than low users to

farm traditionally. Low TAP users had a more positive modem self-identity than high

TAP users. Three of the measured TPB variables fail to reject hypothesis two. Four of

the measured TPB variables show evidence to reject hypothesis two (Table 4-7).

 Hypothesis Three

3. A positive relationship will exist between farmers' access to resources and their
 use of TAP.

Traditional Resource Access

 I used two items in the index to determine each participant's traditional resource

access score. I used summative scores for analysis of traditional resource access. I

removed two participant's responses from the analysis. I removed one participant's

responses due to high levels of missing data. The other participant responded to this

index as not applicable. This was the same participant who responded in the same

manner to the control beliefs measures. There were no missing data 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