Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-275) and index.
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.
Summary
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.
