Early Native Literacies in New England: A Documentary and Critical Anthology

Designed as a corrective to colonial literary histories that have excluded Native voices, this anthology brings together a variety of primary texts produced by the Algonquian peoples of New England during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and very early nineteenth centuries. Included among these written materials and objects are letters, signatures, journals, baskets, pictographs, confessions, wills, and petitions, each of which represents a form of authorship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558496483
• ISBN13: 9781558496484
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher