Inscribing Sovereignties: Writing Community in Native North America Powhatan A young Lenape Indian girl

A young Lenape Indian girl observes and reflects on the small

When he finally travels by horseback to town

He tells of the key events of his own life: his childhood in a government boarding school

she must expose a darkness in the town that no one wants to face--not even Syd

On November 13

Inscribing Sovereignties: Writing Community in Native North America Powhatan A young Lenape Indian girlBefore 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