Indigenous Cultures of Print in Early America
Leader: Phillip H. Round, University of Iowa
Monday - Bibliography and the Sociology of American Indian Texts: An Introduction
Guest scholar: Lisa Brooks, Amherst College
Morning Session
· Overview of “Indian Country”—definitions, historical and geographical scope
· Overview of alphabetic, syllabary, and non-alphabetic Native textual cultures
· Readings:
- Brooks, “Entering Native Space,” from The Common Pot (2009).
- Cohen, “Introduction,” from The Networked Wilderness (2010).
- Lyons, “Mirgrations/Removals,” from X-Marks (2010).
- Round, “Bibliography and the Sociology of American Indian Texts,” Textual Cultures 6.2 (Autumn, 2011): 119-132.
Afternoon Session (Hand-on survey of the archive)
· The Choctaw Nation vs. the United States
· Up Biblum God: The Holy Bible: Containing the Old Testament and the New (Cambridge, [Mass.]: [1663]).
· Iapi oaye. Dakota Mission, 1871-).
· Mr. Occom's address to his Indian brethren. : [Boston? , 1772].
· The Indian primer or The first book. (Boston, 1720).
Tuesday - Modes of Inscription and the Nature of the Archive
Guest scholar: Margaret Bruchac, University of Pennsylvania
Morning Session
· Readings:
- Warkentin, “In Search of the Word of the Other,” Book History (1999): 1-27.
- Rasmussen, “A New World Still in the Making,” from Queequeg’s Coffin (2012)
- Teuton, “Diving into Deep Waters,” from Deep Waters (2010)
- Laura Murray, “Vocabularies of Native Languages” AQ 53:4 (2001): 590-623.
Afternoon Session (Hand-on survey of the archive)
· Visit to the Mashantucket Pequot Research Library
Wednesday - Institutions and Genres
Guest scholar: Hilary Wyss, Auburn University
Morning Session
· Overview of Missionary Activities in British Colonial America/U.S. (1660-1830)
· Readings:
- Selections from Jennifer Moneghan, Learning to Read and Write (UMass, 2007)
- Selections from Hilary Wyss, English Letters and Indian Literacies (Penn, 2012).
Afternoon Session (Hand-on survey of the archive)
· The Indian primer or The first book. (Boston, 1720).
· Ne Jaguh'nigoa'ağes'gwathah = The mental elevator. Buffalo-Creek Reservation [Printed at the Seneca Mission-House], 1842).
Thursday - Authorship and Paratext
Morning Session
· Overview of Proprietary Authorship and Paratext
· Readings:
- Foucault, “What is an Author?”
- MacKenzie, “The Book as an Expressive Form” (1986).
- Selections from Warrior, Tribal Secrets (1995) and The People and the Word (2005).
- Armstrong, “Land Speaking” from Speaking for the Generations (1998).
Afternoon Session (Hand-on survey of the archive)
· Adventures of Peter Jones, [1830?].
· The Lectures of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh, (or G. Copway, the Indian chief,) at Hall No. 1, Tremont Temple, on Monday, Feb. 26, and on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 1849. [Boston : s.n., 1849]
· Apess, William. Eulogy on King Philip, : as pronounced at the Odeon, in Federal Street, Boston, / by the Rev. William Apes, an Indian. (Boston: : Published by the author., 1836).
· Apess, William. A son of the forest. (New-York: : Published by the author. G.F. Bunce, printer., 1831).
Friday
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