Subversive implications of American Indian literacy in New England's praying towns from 1620-1774
Description
This thesis examines literacy development among the Algonquian-speaking Indian peoples of New England from approximately the years 1600-1775. Indians had forms of literacy prior to the coming of European settlers, who introduced them to English literacy for the purpose of proselytization. I describe the process of English-language literacy taking hold during colonization and argue that Indians in the colonial period subverted the colonizing intent of English-language literacy to preserve their mother tongues, their claims to land and affirm their nationhood as a people.
Date Created
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2016
Agent
- Author (aut): Langenfeld, Mark
- Thesis advisor (ths): Riding In, James
- Committee member: Romero-Little, Mary Eunice
- Committee member: Marley, Tennille
- Publisher (pbl): Arizona State University