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Cherokee Sister: The Collected Writings of Catharine Brown, 1818-1823
Contributor(s): Brown, Catharine (Author), Gaul, Theresa Strouth (Editor)
ISBN: 0803240759     ISBN-13: 9780803240759
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
OUR PRICE:   $38.00  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: January 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | American - General
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies
- History | United States - 19th Century
Dewey: 973.049
LCCN: 2013027957
Series: Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers (Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.95 lbs) 312 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Native American
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
 
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Publisher Description:
Catharine Brown (1800?-1823) became Brainerd Mission School's first Cherokee convert to Christianity, a missionary teacher, and the first Native American woman whose own writings saw extensive publication in her lifetime. After her death from tuberculosis at age twenty-three, the missionary organization that had educated and later employed Brown commissioned a posthumous biography, Memoir of Catharine Brown, which enjoyed widespread contemporary popularity and praise. In the following decade, her writings, along with those of other educated Cherokees, became highly politicized and were used in debates about the removal of the Cherokees and other tribes to Indian Territory. Although she was once viewed by literary critics as a docile and dominated victim of missionaries who represented the tragic fate of Indians who abandoned their identities, Brown is now being reconsidered as a figure of enduring Cherokee revitalization, survival, adaptability, and leadership. In Cherokee Sister Theresa Strouth Gaul collects all of Brown's writings, consisting of letters and a diary, some appearing in print for the first time, as well as Brown's biography and a drama and poems about her. This edition of Brown's collected works and related materials firmly establishes her place in early nineteenth-century culture and her influence on American perceptions of Native Americans. Theresa Strouth Gaul is a professor of English at Texas Christian University. She is the editor of To Marry an Indian: The Marriage of Harriett Gold and Elias Boudinot in Letters, 1823-1839 and a coeditor of Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers.