Words Have a Past : The English Language, Colonialism, and the Newspapers of Indian Boarding Schools

Griffith, Jane (author., Author, 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781487513603
Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)
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Computer data.
Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:january.23 Multi-User.
Formatted Contents Note:	Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Tables -- Note -- References -- Index
Restrictions on Access Note:	restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted through purchase.
Language Note:	In English.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by publisher.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021)