Acknowledgements  ix Introduction. Indigenous Textual Cultures, the Politics of Difference, and the Dynamism of Practice / Tony Ballantyne and Lachy Paterson  1 Part I. Archives and Debates 1. Ka Waihona Palapala Māneleo: Research in a Time of Plenty. Colonialism and the Hawaiian-Language Archives / Noelani Arista  31 2. Kanak Writings and Written Tradition in the Archive of New Caledonia's 1917 War / Alban Bensa and Adrian Muckle  60 3. Māori Lteracy Practices in Colonial New Zealand / Lachy Paterson  80 Part II. Orality and Texts 4. "Don't Destroy the Writing": Time-and Space-Based Communication and the Colonial Strategy of Mimicry in Nineteenth-Century Salish-Missionary Relations on Canada's Pacific Coast / Keith Thor Carlson 5. Talking Traditions: Orality, Ecology, and Spirituality in Mangaia's Textual Culture / Michael P. J. Reilly  131 6. Polynesian Family Manuscripts (Puta Tuana) from the Society and Austral Islands: Interior History, Formal Logic, and Social Uses / Bruno Saura  154 Part III. Readers 7. Print Media, the Swahili Language, and Textual Cultures in Twentieth-Century Tanzania, ca. 1923–1939 / Emma Hunter  175 8. Going Off Script: Aboriginal Rejection and Repurposing of English Literacies / Laura Radmaker  195 9. "Read It, Don't Smoke It!": Developing and Maintaining Literacy in Papua New Guinea / Evelyn Ellerman  216 Part IV. Writers 10. Colonial Copyright, Customs, and Indigenous Textualities: Literary Authority and Textual Citizenship / Isabel Hofmeyr  245 11. He Pukapuka Tataku i ngā Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui: Reading Te Rauparaha through Time / Arini Loader  263 12. Writing and Beyond in Indigenous North America: The Occom Network / Ivy Schweitzer  289 Bibliography  315 Contributors  345 Index  

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