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
- 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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