Commentary: Essay and Podcast
An account of household purchases may seem trivial or banal, but in the case of the Indigenous woman Mary Fowler Occom--whose history lies in the shadow of her better-known husband, the Mohegan preacher Samson Occom, who himself labored in the shadow of his erstwhile mentor, the founder of Dartmouth College--the details of housekeeping shine a light on what's otherwise hidden.
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Kelly Wisecup discusses Occom's accounting in this episode of our podcast series, Listening to Hidden Literacies.