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

Summary: "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"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780822979562
ISBN: 082297956X
ISBN: 9780822963066
ISBN: 082296306X
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource.
Publisher: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014.
Copyright: ©2014

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Acknowledgments -- Foreword // Scott Richard Lyons -- Introduction -- 1. "Real Indians" Don't Rap: Theorizing Indigenous Rhetorics -- 2. Defining Principles of Plateau Indian Rhetoric -- 3. Speaking Straight in Indian Languages, 1855-1870 -- 4. Writing in English, 1910-1921 -- 5. Deliberating Publicly, 1955-1956 -- 6. Writing in School, 2000-2004 -- 7. Reassessing the Achievement Gap -- Afterword // Kristin L. Arola -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.