Overview

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.

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Author:   Catharine Brown ,  Theresa Strouth Gaul
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   University of Nebraska Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9780803240759

ISBN 10:   0803240759
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   01 January 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations 000Acknowledgments 000Statement of Editorial Method 000List of Abbreviations 000Editor's Introduction 000 ""My beloved people"": Early Life and Cherokee Contexts 000 ""The dear missionaries"": Education, Conversion, and Missionary Contexts 000 ""A means of great good to our people"": Interpreter and Teacher 000 Brown's Writings 000 ""With pleasure I spend a few moments in writing to you"": Brown's Letters 000 ""I jest sit down to address you with my pen"": The Rhetorics of Brown's Letters 000 ""O painful is it to record"": Brown's Diary 000 Other Textual Representations 000 Memoir of Catharine Brown 000 Part 1. Collected Writings, 1818-1823Letters 000Diary 000 Part 2. Nineteenth-Century Representations of Catharine BrownCatharine Brown, the Converted Cherokee: A Missionary Drama, Founded on Fact (1819) 000 A Lady of ConnecticutExcerpt from Traits of the Aborigines of America (1822) 000 Lydia Sigourney""Inscription: For the Grave of Catharine Brown"" (1825) 000 Anonymous""The Grave of Catharine Brown"" (1825) 000 H.S.Memoir of Catharine Brown, a Christian Indian of the Cherokee Nation (1825) 000 Rufus Anderson Source Acknowledgments 000Notes 000Works Cited 000

Reviews

Cherokee Sister perfectly captures what a scholastic collection of archival papers should be. Joshua M./i>--Joshua M. Rice Great Plains Quarterly

Cherokee Sister is an essential intervention into, and addition to, the canon of nineteenth-century American Indian writers. The introductory essay is exemplary, serving not only as a recalibration of Brown's importance but also as a field- defining treatise on how we should approach nineteenth- century Native writing in general. -Bethany Schneider, Legacy -- Bethany Schneider * Legacy * Cherokee Sister perfectly captures what a scholastic collection of archival papers should be. -Joshua M. Rice, Great Plains Quarterly -- Joshua M. Rice * Great Plains Quarterly *

Cherokee Sister: The Collected Writings of Catharine Brown, 1818-1823 offers to Americanists and Native Americanists alike a versatile collection of perhaps the earliest published Native American woman author in the United States. . . . Cherokee Sister's ability to speak to so many interconnected contexts and issues will service a range of college classrooms toward a more nuanced understanding of the complexities of agency and adaptation in nineteenth-century Native American literatures. -Michael P. Taylor, Early American Literature -- Michael P. Taylor * Early American Literature * Cherokee Sister is an essential intervention into, and addition to, the canon of nineteenth-century American Indian writers. The introductory essay is exemplary, serving not only as a recalibration of Brown's importance but also as a field- defining treatise on how we should approach nineteenth- century Native writing in general. -Bethany Schneider, Legacy -- Bethany Schneider * Legacy * Cherokee Sister perfectly captures what a scholastic collection of archival papers should be. -Joshua M. Rice, Great Plains Quarterly -- Joshua M. Rice * Great Plains Quarterly *

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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.  

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