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Approaching the Account
12019-07-15T13:24:01+00:00Emma Sternberg9dd1d1d0edcde572d5819158147f717e072da3b911Wisecup Page 2plain2019-07-15T13:24:01+00:00Emma Sternberg9dd1d1d0edcde572d5819158147f717e072da3b9I want to pose two ways for approaching this page of accounts, in order to ask not only what hidden literacies it might illuminate but also what literacies readers need to approach accounts relating to Native women. These two approaches can be characterized as looking through and looking at. Together, they illuminate not just Mary Occom’s knowledge of reading and writing in English but her interaction with various forms of communication and the capacious meanings that accounting had in the eighteenth century.2
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12019-07-15T14:10:11+00:00Emma Sternberg9dd1d1d0edcde572d5819158147f717e072da3b9Commentary: Essay and PodcastJoelle Thomas12Kelly Wisecup Commentaryplain2022-11-14T17:44:30+00:00Joelle Thomas0feb3b2b7a8befeee2c7d2d710d303ed96772141
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12019-07-15T13:23:25+00:00An Approach to Sideline1Wisecup Note 2plain2019-07-15T13:23:25+00:00