The Berber Identity Movement and the Challenge to North African StatesLike many indigenous groups that have endured centuries of subordination, the Berber Amazigh peoples of North Africa are demanding linguistic and cultural recognition and the redressing of injustices. Indeed, the movement seeks nothing less than a refashioning of the identity of North African states, a rewriting of their history, and a fundamental change in the basis of collective life. In so doing, it poses a challenge to the existing political and