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

For nearly 100 years, Indian boarding schools in Canada and the United States 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 res...

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Main Author: Griffith, Jane, 1983- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
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505 0 |a 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. 
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