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in the U.S. the southern resident pod's status shifted from “depleted” to “endangered”
in February 2006 under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

7 Three upper-division college students from Northwest Indian College repeated the

process independently. This process served two purposes: to train the students in methods
of critical discourse analysis and to validate results. Although discourse analysis is
certainly not a “precise methodology” (largely because the categories are so slippery),
the process helps to identify trends and dominant voices. In all four reviews, the trends
were consistent.