Inscribing Sovereignties: Writing Community in Native North America Cherokee tenderness

tenderness

"my grandfather's country")

Lee Obizan Staples recounts these and many other ceremonies and traditions of an Ojibwe childhood

the Osage Indians owned Oklahoma's most valuable oil reserves and became members of the world's first wealthy oil population

has grown up disconnected from their history

Inscribing Sovereignties: Writing Community in Native North America Cherokee tendernessBefore European settlers arrived in North America, more than 300 distinct languages were being spoken among the continent's Indigenous peoples. But the Euro American emphasis on alphabetic literacy has historically hidden the power and influence of Indigenous verbal and nonverbal language diversity on encounters between Indigenous North Americans and settlers. In this pathbreaking work, Phillip H. Round reveals how Native North Americans sparked a