Land, language, and women a Cherokee and American educational history Julie L. Reed

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reed, Julie L., 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cherokee Indians--Education--History.

Cherokee Indians.

Cherokee women--Social life and customs--History.

Cherokee women.

Indian girls--Education--History.

Indian girls.

Indians of North America--Education--Social aspects.

Indians of North America.

Cherokee women--Social life and customs.

Indian women educators--History.

Indian women educators.

Cherokee Indians--Education.

Indians of North America--Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

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map

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press [2026]

Summary:

"Historians largely understand Native American education through the Indian boarding schools and reservation schools established by the US government during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But Native Americans taught and learned from one another long before colonization, and while white settlers and institutions powerfully influenced Indigenous educational practices, they never stopped Native peoples from educating one another on their own terms. In this ambitious and imaginatively conceived book, Julie L. Reed uses Cherokee teaching and learning practices spanning more than four centuries to reframe the way we think about Native American educational history. Reed draws on archaeological evidence from Southeastern US caves, ethnohistorical narratives of Cherokee syllabary development, records from Christian mission schools, Cherokee Nation archives, and family and personal histories to reveal surprising continuity amid powerful change. Centering the role of women as educators across generations in Cherokee matrilineal society, the power of land to anchor learning, and the significance of language in expressing sovereignty, Reed fundamentally rethinks the nature of educational space, the roles played by teachers and learners, and the periodization imposed by US settler colonialism onto the Indigenous experience." -- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Kituwah: Ageyutsa

Overhill towns: Climber of Trees

Wills Valley: Ayohka

Skin Bayou District: Caroline Fields

Oklahoma Indian Schools: Rachel Johnson

Oklahoma Schools: Aincy (Nancy) Joan

Global education: Julie

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed February 9, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Reed, Julie L., 1976- Land, language, and women

ISBN:

9781469687360

1469687364

9781469684925

1469684926

9781469684918

1469684918

9781469687353

1469687356

OCLC:

1564131405

Publisher Number:

CIPO000318482

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license