...Ellen Cushman The development of the Cherokee syllabary from script to print happened during a time in the tribe's history when great pressures were upon them to civilize, adopt English and the Roman alphabet, and establish a government. Between 1821 and 1828, the syllabary itself went through...

... Nations should be done. Signs of Cherokee Culture: Sequoyah’s Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life. By Margaret Bender. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xx + 187 pp., illustrations, preface, introduction, index, bibliogra- phy. $49.94 cloth, $19.95 paper.) Nancy Shoemaker...

...Rose Stremlau The Cherokee Syllabary: Writing the People's Perseverance . By Cushman Ellen . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2011 . v + 238 pp., preface, acknowledgments, notes, references, bibliography, index . $34.95 cloth.) Copyright 2013 by American Society...

... years to come as models for how historic studies on Native American Nations should be done. Signs of Cherokee Culture: Sequoyah’s Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life. By Margaret Bender. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xx + 187 pp., illustrations, preface, introduction...

... Nations should be done. Signs of Cherokee Culture: Sequoyah’s Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life. By Margaret Bender. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xx + 187 pp., illustrations, preface, introduction, index, bibliogra- phy. $49.94 cloth, $19.95 paper.) Nancy Shoemaker...

... Nations should be done. Signs of Cherokee Culture: Sequoyah’s Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life. By Margaret Bender. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xx + 187 pp., illustrations, preface, introduction, index, bibliogra- phy. $49.94 cloth, $19.95 paper.) Nancy Shoemaker...

... years to come as models for how historic studies on Native American Nations should be done. Signs of Cherokee Culture: Sequoyah’s Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life. By Margaret Bender. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xx + 187 pp., illustrations, preface, introduction...

... Nations should be done. Signs of Cherokee Culture: Sequoyah’s Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life. By Margaret Bender. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xx + 187 pp., illustrations, preface, introduction, index, bibliogra- phy. $49.94 cloth, $19.95 paper.) Nancy Shoemaker...

... Nations should be done. Signs of Cherokee Culture: Sequoyah’s Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life. By Margaret Bender. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xx + 187 pp., illustrations, preface, introduction, index, bibliogra- phy. $49.94 cloth, $19.95 paper.) Nancy Shoemaker...

... Nations should be done. Signs of Cherokee Culture: Sequoyah’s Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life. By Margaret Bender. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xx + 187 pp., illustrations, preface, introduction, index, bibliogra- phy. $49.94 cloth, $19.95 paper.) Nancy Shoemaker...

... Nations should be done. Signs of Cherokee Culture: Sequoyah’s Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life. By Margaret Bender. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xx + 187 pp., illustrations, preface, introduction, index, bibliogra- phy. $49.94 cloth, $19.95 paper.) Nancy Shoemaker...

... Nations should be done. Signs of Cherokee Culture: Sequoyah’s Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life. By Margaret Bender. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xx + 187 pp., illustrations, preface, introduction, index, bibliogra- phy. $49.94 cloth, $19.95 paper.) Nancy Shoemaker...

... Nations should be done. Signs of Cherokee Culture: Sequoyah’s Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life. By Margaret Bender. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xx + 187 pp., illustrations, preface, introduction, index, bibliogra- phy. $49.94 cloth, $19.95 paper.) Nancy Shoemaker...

... Nations should be done. Signs of Cherokee Culture: Sequoyah’s Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life. By Margaret Bender. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xx + 187 pp., illustrations, preface, introduction, index, bibliogra- phy. $49.94 cloth, $19.95 paper.) Nancy Shoemaker...

... years to come as models for how historic studies on Native American Nations should be done. Signs of Cherokee Culture: Sequoyah’s Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life. By Margaret Bender. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xx + 187 pp., illustrations, preface, introduction...

... surveys the history of written language in the nineteenth-­century Cherokee Nation, from Sequoyah’s invention of the Cherokee syllabary to allotment and Oklahoma statehood. Literacy, Parins observes, did more than provide Cherokees with a more efficient means of communication. It gave them...

.... In Creating Context in Andean Cultures . Rosaleen Howard-Malverde, ed. Pp. 99 -134. New York: Oxford University Press. Bender, Margaret Clelland 2002 Signs of Cherokee Culture: Sequoyah's Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Benveniste, Émile 1985...

... surveys the history of written language in the nineteenth-­century Cherokee Nation, from Sequoyah’s invention of the Cherokee syllabary to allotment and Oklahoma statehood. Literacy, Parins observes, did more than provide Cherokees with a more efficient means of communication. It gave them...

... of graphic semiotic functioning. American Society for Ethnohistory 2010 Anderson, Benedict 1983 Imagined Communities . London: Verso. Bender, Margaret 2002 Signs of Cherokee Culture: Sequoyah's Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Durston...