ERIC Number: EJ951396
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Sep
Pages: 23
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Cherokee Practice, Missionary Intentions: Literacy Learning among Early Nineteenth-Century Cherokee Women
Moulder, M. Amanda
College Composition and Communication, v63 n1 p75-97 Sep 2011
This article discusses how archival documents reveal early nineteenth-century Cherokee purposes for English-language literacy. In spite of Euro-American efforts to depoliticize Cherokee women's roles, Cherokee female students adapted the literacy tools of an outsider patriarchal society to retain public, political power. Their writing served Cherokee national interests and demonstrated female students' concerns with the fate of the Cherokee people. (Contains 20 notes.)
Descriptors: American Indians, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Literacy, Political Power, Foreign Policy, United States History, Acculturation, American Indian Education, Role of Education, Power Structure, Females, Context Effect, Feminism, Religious Education, Information Dissemination, Christianity, Global Approach, Conflict, Archives, Documentation
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United States
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