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Cherokee Sister: The Collected Writings of Catharine Brown, 1818-1823

Name: Cherokee Sister: The Collected Writings of Catharine Brown, 1818-1823
Brand: University of Nebraska Press
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Contributors:

Catharine Brown, Theresa Strouth Gaul (Editor)

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Literary Collections, Social Science, History

Book Subcategory:

American, Ethnic Studies, United States

Book Topic:

American, 19th Century

Series:

Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers (Paperback)

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Release Date:

2014-01-01

ISBN 13:

9780803240759

Weight:

0.95 lbs

Size:

8.90 x 6.00 x 0.90 inches

Pages:

312

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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.

About the Author
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.

Cherokee Sister: The Collected Writings of Catharine Brown, 1818-1823

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