English Letters and Indian LiteraciesAs rigid and unforgiving as the boarding schools established for the education of Native Americans could be, the intellectuals who engaged with these schoolsincluding Mohegans Samson Occom and Joseph Johnson, and Montauketts David and Jacob Fowler in the eighteenth century, and Cherokees Catharine and David Brown in the nineteenthbecame passionate advocates for Native community as a political and cultural force. From handwriting exercises to Cherokee