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

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." -- amazon.com

Record details

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

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Bury the Lede: Introduction -- 2. Printer's Devil: The Trade of Newspapers -- 3. Indigenous Languages Did Not Disappear: English Language Instruction -- 4. "Getting Indian Words": Representations of Indigenous Languages -- 5. Ahead by a Century: Time on Paper -- 6. Anachronism: Reading the Nineteenth Century Today -- 7. Layout: Space, Place, and Land -- 8. Concluding Thoughts.