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English letters and Indian literacies [electronic resource] : reading, writing, and New England missionary schools, 1750-1830 / Hilary E. Wyss.

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Focusing on boarding schools established by New England missionaries, English Letters and Indian Literacies explores the ways Native students negotiated the variety of pedagogical practices and technologies of literacy and managed those technologies for their own ends.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Wyss, Hilary E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Haney Foundation series.
Subjects:
Indians of North America > Education > New England.
Indians of North America > New England > Intellectual life.
Indians of North America > Missions > New England.
Written communication > New England > History.
Literacy > New England > History.
Indians of North America > Education.
Indians of North America > Intellectual life.
Indians of North America > Missions.
Literacy.
Written communication.
New England.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction. Technologies of Literacy
  • Chapter 1. Narratives and Counternarratives: Producing Readerly Indians in Eighteenth- Century New England
  • Chapter 2. The Writerly Worlds of Joseph Johnson
  • Chapter 3. Brainerd's Missionary Legacy: Death and the Writing of Cherokee Salvation
  • Chapter 4. The Foreign Mission School and the Writerly Indian
  • After Words: Native Literacy and Autonomy
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.

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