Commentary: Essay and Podcast
The early 19th-century Kickapoo leader Kenekuk contrived a unique, non-alphabetic representation of a religious vision and inscribed it on ten-inch wooden boards. The "prayer stick" proliferated and helped galvanize a religious community. But what does it say, and for whose eyes is its message?
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Phil Round discusses prayer sticks in this episode of our podcast series, Listening to Hidden Literacies.