TABLE 1.3 CONNECTEDNESS TO THE PAST ON SIX OCCASIONS --BY RACIAL/ETHNIC GROUP

We asked our respondents for the following information about six "occasions": "On a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 means you felt no connection to the past and 10 means you felt a strong connection to the past, please tell me how connected to the past you felt on the following." The table below reports the mean score our national sample and four racial/ethnic groups gave the occasions in the far-left column. The numbers in parentheses indicate the number of respondents on which each mean is based.

How connected to the past do you feel when...	POPULATION GROUPS
	National sample	White	African American	Mexican American	Pine Ridge Oglala Sioux
Gathering with your family	7.9 (795)	7.8 (615)	8.3 (291)	7.7 (192)	7.6 (180)
Visiting a museum or historic site	7.3 (782)	7.4 (609)	6.5 (270)	6.9 (180)	6.7 (177)
Celebrating holidays	7.0 (797)	7.0 (616)	7.0 (295)	7.5 (193)	6.5 (181)
Reading a book about the past	6.5 (775)	6.7 (602)	6.0 (280)	6.1 (179)	5.5 (166)
Watching a movie or TV program about the past	6.0 (778)	6.0 (603)	6.1 (288)	6.2 (189)	4.6 (177)
Studying history in school	5.7 (788)	5.7 (610)	5.2 (290)	5.8 (183)	4.1 (180)