English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 175-183

by Hilary E. Wyss

As rigid and unforgiving as the boarding schools established for the education of Native Americans could be, the intellectuals who engaged with these schools--including Mohegans Samson Occom and Joseph Johnson, and Montauketts David and Jacob Fowler in the eighteenth century, and Cherokees Catharine and David Brown in the nineteenth--became passionate advocates for Native community as a political and cultural force. From handwriting exercises to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812244133
• ISBN13: 9780812244137
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"