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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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
[2019]
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Table of 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.