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Plateau Indian Ways with Words: The Rhetorical Tradition of the Tribes of the Inland Pacific Northwest

Plateau Indian Ways with Words: The Rhetorical Tradition of the Tribes of the Inland Pacific Northwest

Monroe, Barbara

Paperback

Series: Composition, Literacy, and Culture, Book 163

Native American HistoryIndigenous Languages of the AmericasGeneral Reference

ISBN10: 082296306X
ISBN13: 9780822963066
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Jul 3 2014
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
In Plateau Indian Ways with Words, Barbara Monroe makes visible the arts of persuasion of the Plateau Indians, whose ancestral grounds stretch from the Cascades to the Rockies, revealing a chain of cultural identification that predates the colonial period and continues to this day. Culling from hundreds of student writings from grades 7-12 in two reservation schools, Monroe finds that students employ the same persuasive techniques as their forebears, as evidenced in dozens of post-conquest speech transcriptions and historical writings. These persuasive strategies have survived not just across generations, but also across languages from Indian to English and across multiple genres from telegrams and Supreme Court briefs to school essays and hip hop lyrics.


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