The Design of Native Literacy Programs and How Literacy Came to the Cherokees

Some features of the highly successful literacy movements of the past are still likely to be attractive to Indiana American communities: adult participation, the absence of formalism, adaptability to both sacred and secular purposes, and lack of control by any White educational institution. To get a native literacy movement started, however, one probably needs, in addition to all this, a collaborator with the propensities of Sequoyah's six-year-old daughter.