Removable Type

“Removable Type opens up an entirely new approach to Native American texts and creates a compelling and exciting argument about the role of the book and of print culture in Indian Country. This is a groundbreaking book with detailed, original, and sophisticated analysis.” — Hilary E. Wyss, author of Writing Indians: Literacy, Christianity, and Native Community in Early America

“Painstakingly researched, deeply conversant with the fields it will impact, and engagingly argued and written, Removable Type will be a landmark in early Native literary studies and in early American book history. Round generates a set of scholarly questions that will keep people coming back to this book for a long while.” — Robert Warrior, author of The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction

“Explores how native peoples came to adopt a European weapon, namely the printed word, as both a means to defend themselves from the actions of the United States and as a way to preserve their culture. . . . Highly recommended.” — Library Journal

“Round’s important study demonstrates and confirms that Native Americans had an intellectual interest in European alphabetic literacy from very early in the colonial relationship. . . . Well researched and effectively presented. . . . Recommended.” — CHOICE

“A landmark study that presents a new genealogy of early American book history, one in which American Indians secured intellectual sovereignty and constitutional rights by scripting indigenous sign systems into the printed world.” — Modern Philology