Description: Examines some of the work of early American writers that centered around the Algonquian Indians.
Review Quotes:
"The book presents a series of Native textual objects edited according to scholarly conventions with interpretive essays that explains the artifacts' production and subsequent archival history. Together, the essays in these collections represent some of the best work being done in this field."--Early American Literature
"A well-written and informative addition to a wide range of interests. . . . The chapters provide a variety of perspectives and interpretations of primary American Indian colonial texts that are well grounded and designed to introduce these texts to a wide range of readers, from introductory university classes to anyone who is interested in colonial America or American Indian histories."--American Indian Quarterly
"A vivid picture of the complexities, contradictions, and challenges inherent both in early Native literacies and in the scholarly reconstruction of these textual encounters."--New England Quarterly