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Subversive Implications of American Indian Literacy in New England's Praying Towns from 1620-1774January 2016 (has links)
abstract: 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. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis American Indian Studies 2016
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