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
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:40233 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Contributors | Langenfeld, Mark (Author), Riding In, James (Advisor), Romero-Little, Mary Eunice (Committee member), Marley, Tennille (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher) |
| Source Sets | Arizona State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Masters Thesis |
| Format | 136 pages |
| Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved |
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