Abstract

This article discusses how teaching students to recognize the contemporary American Indian theoretical concepts of “rhetorical sovereignty” and “rhetorical alliance” in Native texts can help deepen understanding of American Indian voices and histories in an appropriate context, while also developing students' understandings of multiple and cross-cultural rhetorical frameworks.

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Pedagogy
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2012-04-01
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10.1215/15314200-1503568
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  1. College Composition and Communication
  2. College English

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