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Removable type : histories of the book in Indian country, 1663-1880 /

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Spanning a two-hundred-year period, examines the relationship between Native Americans and printed books, exploring how Native Americans used the printed word to preserve their culture and to defend themselves from the actions of the United States government.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Round, Phillip H., 1958-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
Subjects:
Indians of North America > Books and reading.
Books and reading > United States > History.
Indians of North America > Government relations.
Literacy > Social aspects > United States.
Indians of North America > Cultural assimilation.
Table of Contents:
  • The coming of the book to Indian country
  • Being and becoming literate in the eighteenth-century native northeast
  • New and uncommon means
  • Public writing I : "to feel interest in our welfare"
  • Public writing II : the Cherokee, a "reading and intellectual people"
  • Proprietary authorship
  • The culture of reprinting
  • Indigenous illustration.