Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. Technologies of Literacy -- Chapter 1. Narratives and Counternarratives: Producing Readerly Indians in Eighteenth- Century New England -- Chapter 2. The Writerly Worlds of Joseph Johnson -- Chapter 3. Brainerd's Missionary Legacy: Death and the Writing of Cherokee Salvation -- Chapter 4. The Foreign Mission School and the Writerly Indian -- After Words: Native Literacy and Autonomy -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary
Focusing on boarding schools established by New England missionaries, English Letters and Indian Literacies explores the ways Native students negotiated the variety of pedagogical practices and technologies of literacy and managed those technologies for their own ends
