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Words have a past : the English language, colonialism, and the newspapers of Indian boarding schools

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2019
Author
Griffith, Jane
Publisher
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
Call Number
07.2 G87w
Author
Griffith, Jane
Publisher
Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
Published Date
2019
Physical Description
xi, 314 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Indigenous Peoples
Colonialism
Schools
Newspapers
Language
Abstract
For nearly 100 years, Indian boarding schools in Canada and the US produced newspapers read by white settlers, government officials, and Indigenous parents. These newspapers were used as a settler colonial tool, yet within these tightly controlled narratives there also existed sites of resistance. This book traces colonial narratives of language, time, and place from the nineteenth-century to the present day, post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Bury the lede: introduction -- Printer's devil: the trade of newspapers -- Indigenous languages did not disappear: English language instruction -- "Getting Indian words": representations of indigenous languages -- Ahead by a century: time on paper -- Anachronishm: reading the nineteenth century today -- Layout: space, place, and land -- Concluding thoughts.
ISBN
9781487521554
Accession Number
P2023.12
Call Number
07.2 G87w
Collection
Archives Library
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