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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griffith, Jane, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics--Canada.

Sociolinguistics.

Student newspapers and periodicals.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-1361-5

1-4875-1360-7

OCLC:

1091899536