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Words have a past : the English language, colonialism, and the newspapers of Indian boarding schools / Jane Griffith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Griffith, Jane, 1983- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indian students--Canada--Intellectual life.
- Indian students.
- Indian press--Canada--History.
- Indian press.
- Student newspapers and periodicals--Canada--History.
- Student newspapers and periodicals.
- Indian students--Press coverage--Canada.
- Indians of North America--Languages--Social aspects.
- Indians of North America.
- Sociolinguistics--Canada.
- Sociolinguistics.
- Discrimination in education--Canada--History.
- Discrimination in education.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 314 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- Other Format:
- Print version (softcover): Griffith, Jane, 1983- Words have a past.
- Print version (hardcover): Griffith, Jane, 1983- Words have a past.
- ISBN:
- 9781487513610
- 1487513615
- 9781487513603
- 1487513607
- OCLC:
- 1091899536
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