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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Ellen CushmanPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press Volume: 56 Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.434kg ISBN: 9780806142203ISBN 10: 0806142200 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 30 December 2011 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsIn this timely, vital work, Ellen Cushman shares a parable of indigenous ingenuity and adaptability that affirms Cherokee literacy as a central pillar in the tribe's will to flourish as a people. She persuasively argues that Sequoyah's writing system performs a primary role in Cherokee language, religion, land, and sacred history. This powerful book will reshape Cherokee studies as we know them. ?Sean Kicummah Teuton, author of Red Land, Red Power: Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel Author InformationEllen Cushman, Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures at Michigan State University and citizen of the Cherokee Nation, is co-editor of Literacy: A Critical Sourcebook and author of The Struggle and the Tools: Oral and Literate Strategies in an Inner City Community. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |