The Bearer Of This Letter: Language Ideologies, Literacy Practices, And The Fort Belknap Indian ...

The Bearer Of This Letter: Language Ideologies, Literacy Practices, And The Fort Belknap Indian Community Mindy J. Morgan 2009 University of Nebraska Press The Bearer of This Letter is an interesting but narrowly focused study of the use of writing on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation located in north-central Montana. The title refers to the written passes that tribal members needed from an Indian agent to leave their reservations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth...

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