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

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

Griffith, Jane, 1983- (author.).

Summary:

"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.

Record details

ISBN: 1487521553
ISBN: 9781487501617
ISBN: 9781487521554
ISBN: 1487501617
Physical Description: xi, 314 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher: Toronto ; University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: 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.