In 1663, the Puritan missionary John Eliot, with the help of a Nipmuck convert whom the English called James Printer, produced the first Bible printed in North America. It was printed not in English but in Algonquian, making it one of the first books printed in a Native language. In this ambitious and multidisciplinary work, Phillip Round examines the relationship between Native Americans and printed books over a two-hundred-year period, uncovering the individual, communal, regional, and political contexts for Native peoples' use of the printed word. From the northeastern woodlands to the Great Plains, Round argues, alphabetic literacy and printed books mattered greatly in the emergent, transitional cultural formations of indigenous nations threatened by European imperialism.
Removable Type showcases the varied ways that Native peoples produced and utilized printed texts over time, approaching them as both opportunity and threat. Surveying this rich history, Round addresses such issues as the role of white missionaries and Christian texts in the dissemination of print culture in Indian Country, the establishment of "national" publishing houses by tribes, the production and consumption of bilingual texts, the importance of copyright in establishing Native intellectual sovereignty (and the sometimes corrosive effects of reprinting thereon), and the significance of illustrations.

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Phillip H. Round

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Pediatrics

Enamel Arts Foundation

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Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar, 2010

United States, United States of America

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2010

Chapel Hill, United States, 2010

New edition, 2010

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-275) and index.

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Cover 1
Title Page, Copyright Page 2
Contents 8
Acknowledgments 12
Prologue 16
Introduction: Toward an Indian Bibliography 20
1. The Coming of the Book to Indian Country 36
2. Being and Becoming Literate in the Eighteenth-Century Native Northeast 61
3. New and Uncommon Means 88
4. Public Writing I: ¬タワTo Feel Interest in Our Welfare¬タン 112
5. Public Writing II: The Cherokee, a ¬タワReading and Intellectual People¬タン 138
6. Proprietary Authorship 165
7. The Culture of Reprinting 188
8. Indigenous Illustration 215
Epilogue: The View from Red Cloud¬タルs Grave 238
Notes 246
Bibliography 276
Index 292
Publisher:The University of North Carolina Press,Published:2010,ISBN:9781469606347,Related ISBN:9780807833902,Language:English,OCLC:676700712
In 1663, the Puritan missionary John Eliot, with the help of a Nipmuck convert the English called John Printer, produced the first Bible printed in North America; it was printed not in English but in Algonquian, making it one of the first books printed in a Native language. Thus, the trajectory of printing history in North America is intimately tied to the indigenous cultures of this continent--even if it took another one hundred years before Samson Occom became the first Native American to publish his own book in 1772. In this ambitious and multidisciplinary work, Round examines the relationship between Native Americans and the printed book over a 200-year span, arguing persuasively for the essential role of the book and of print culture in Indian lives from the sixteenth century through the Removal Period to the rise of U.S. assimilation policies in the late nineteenth century. Merging the methods of book history and Native American studies, Round shows how books became a central point of contestation between Europeans eager to assimilate Native Americans and Native people themselves, who quickly recognized the power of print to stake out claims for cultural and political sovereignty. Round showcases the varied ways that Native peoples produced and/or utilized printed texts over time, addressing such issues as the role of white missionaries and Christian texts in the dissemination of print culture in Indian Country, the establishment of “national” publishing houses by tribes, the production and consumption of bilingual texts, the role of copyright in establishing Native intellectual sovereignty (and the sometimes corrosive effects of reprinting thereon), and the role of illustrations.

Spanning a two-hundred-year period, examines the relationship between Native Americans and printed books, exploring how Native Americans used the printed word to preserve their culture and to defend themselves from the actions of the United States government

Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663-1880

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