Words Have a Past: The English Language, Colonialism, and the Newspapers of Indian Boarding Schools
Jane Griffith, "Words Have a Past: The English Language, Colonialism, and the Newspapers of Indian Boarding Schools"
English | ISBN: 1487521553 | 2019 | 328 pages | PDF | 8 MB
English | ISBN: 1487521553 | 2019 | 328 pages | PDF | 8 MB
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.