Ellen Cushman
Biographic Data
| ID | 684248 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ellen Cushman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ellen |
| FAMILY NAME | Cushman |
| SIGNATURE | CUSHMAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of English Northeastern University Boston Massachusetts USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9701-9116 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Seeking Indigenous Data Sovereignty in the Age of Data Scraping: The Digital Archive of Indigenous Language Persistence (Dailp)
The problem of data extraction to feed LLMs impacts all digital archives and open-sourced initiatives. Though the practice of data-scraping bots used to create the LLMs that feed algorithms is recent, extractivist models of language documentation are nothing new. To redress the challenges presented by extractivist methods, Indigenous language scholars and linguists as well as digital archivists and librarians have innovated methodologies to provi…
Building a community‐centered archive for Cherokee language description, documentation, and reclamation
In light of recent calls for decolonial approaches to Indigenous language learning, documentation, and reclamation, we describe the creation of a digital archive initiated and sustained by community collaboration. We work with members of the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes to translate and analyze Cherokee texts. Cherokee speakers participate in the narrative commentary around these previously dormant texts. We find three ways in which…
Conversing with Letters: Cherokee-Language Perseverance and Preservation
In this essay, we analyze a letter written in the Cherokee syllabary from inmates at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in 1951. We seek to explain how the letter serves as a model for language perseverance. We place the letter in the postallotment period of American Indian history, focusing on the unique circumstances engendering the letter's creation as a remarkably legible sample of Cherokee handwriting. Considering the imperial legacies of trans…
The Mediation of Cultural Memory: Digital Preservation in the Cases of Classical Indian Dance and the Cherokee Stomp Dance
We're Taking the Genius of Sequoyah into This Century”: The Cherokee Syllabary, Peoplehood, and Perseverance
"We're Taking the Genius of Sequoyah into This Century" The Cherokee Syllabary, Peoplehood, and Perseverance Ellen Cushman (bio) We have met and see one another friends and brothers. I am extremely glad to see you friends and brothers, and I am glad for what you have seen. Make every effort to complete it, for all can see what is going on, it is clear to every one. There is no doubt of its success—do not forget it—that which you will hear of me m…
The Cherokee Syllabary: A Writing System In Its Own Right
Informally recognized by the tribal council in 1821, the 86-character Cherokee writing system invented by Sequoyah was learned in manuscript form and became widely used by the Cherokee within the span of a few years. In 1827, Samuel Worcester standardized the arrangement of characters and print designs in ways that differed from Sequoyah’s original arrangement of characters. Using Worcester’s arrangement as their sole source of evidence, however,…
The Cherokee Syllabary from Script to Print
The development of the Cherokee syllabary from script to print happened during a time in the tribe's history when great pressures were upon them to civilize, adopt English and the Roman alphabet, and establish a government. Between 1821 and 1828, the syllabary itself went through considerable change from the manuscript version to the print version recognized today. These changes remark on the sociocultural pressures of the time and reveal that th…
The Politics of the Personal: Storying Our Lives against the Grain
This symposium presents a written dialogue of scholars expressing not only excitement but also frustration over the ways in which current work in composition and literacy studies has explored the politics of the personal.
Critical Literacy and Institutional Language
Uses activist ethnographic field work to explore institutional language skills used by inner-city residents as they negotiated social services institutions. Shows residents’ critical awareness and political acumen as they complied with and resisted the structuring ideology of institutional agents. Raises questions about the methods of key critical pedagogues and the appropriateness of their assumption of false consciousness among disenfranchised …
The Cherokee Syllabary from Script to Print
The development of the Cherokee syllabary from script to print happened during a time in the tribe's history when great pressures were upon them to civilize, adopt English and the Roman alphabet, and establish a government. Between 1821 and 1828, the syllabary itself went through considerable change from the manuscript version to the print version recognized today. These changes remark on the sociocultural pressures of the time and reveal that th…
Critical Literacy and Institutional Language
Uses activist ethnographic field work to explore institutional language skills used by inner-city residents as they negotiated social services institutions. Shows residents’ critical awareness and political acumen as they complied with and resisted the structuring ideology of institutional agents. Raises questions about the methods of key critical pedagogues and the appropriateness of their assumption of false consciousness among disenfranchised …
The Politics of the Personal: Storying Our Lives against the Grain
This symposium presents a written dialogue of scholars expressing not only excitement but also frustration over the ways in which current work in composition and literacy studies has explored the politics of the personal.
The Cherokee Syllabary from Script to Print
The development of the Cherokee syllabary from script to print happened during a time in the tribe's history when great pressures were upon them to civilize, adopt English and the Roman alphabet, and establish a government. Between 1821 and 1828, the syllabary itself went through considerable change from the manuscript version to the print version recognized today. These changes remark on the sociocultural pressures of the time and reveal that th…
We're Taking the Genius of Sequoyah into This Century”: The Cherokee Syllabary, Peoplehood, and Perseverance
"We're Taking the Genius of Sequoyah into This Century" The Cherokee Syllabary, Peoplehood, and Perseverance Ellen Cushman (bio) We have met and see one another friends and brothers. I am extremely glad to see you friends and brothers, and I am glad for what you have seen. Make every effort to complete it, for all can see what is going on, it is clear to every one. There is no doubt of its success—do not forget it—that which you will hear of me m…
The Cherokee Syllabary: A Writing System In Its Own Right
Informally recognized by the tribal council in 1821, the 86-character Cherokee writing system invented by Sequoyah was learned in manuscript form and became widely used by the Cherokee within the span of a few years. In 1827, Samuel Worcester standardized the arrangement of characters and print designs in ways that differed from Sequoyah’s original arrangement of characters. Using Worcester’s arrangement as their sole source of evidence, however,…
The Mediation of Cultural Memory: Digital Preservation in the Cases of Classical Indian Dance and the Cherokee Stomp Dance
Conversing with Letters: Cherokee-Language Perseverance and Preservation
In this essay, we analyze a letter written in the Cherokee syllabary from inmates at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in 1951. We seek to explain how the letter serves as a model for language perseverance. We place the letter in the postallotment period of American Indian history, focusing on the unique circumstances engendering the letter's creation as a remarkably legible sample of Cherokee handwriting. Considering the imperial legacies of trans…
Building a community‐centered archive for Cherokee language description, documentation, and reclamation
In light of recent calls for decolonial approaches to Indigenous language learning, documentation, and reclamation, we describe the creation of a digital archive initiated and sustained by community collaboration. We work with members of the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes to translate and analyze Cherokee texts. Cherokee speakers participate in the narrative commentary around these previously dormant texts. We find three ways in which…
Seeking Indigenous Data Sovereignty in the Age of Data Scraping: The Digital Archive of Indigenous Language Persistence (Dailp)
The problem of data extraction to feed LLMs impacts all digital archives and open-sourced initiatives. Though the practice of data-scraping bots used to create the LLMs that feed algorithms is recent, extractivist models of language documentation are nothing new. To redress the challenges presented by extractivist methods, Indigenous language scholars and linguists as well as digital archivists and librarians have innovated methodologies to provi…
Sociology (8 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Cherokee (6 works) · History (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (4 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)