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Words Have a Past: the English Language, Colonialism, and the Newspapers of Indian Boarding Schools

 Author: Jane Griffith  Category: history  Publisher: University of Toronto Press  Published: January 1, 2019  ISBN: 9781487521554 More Details
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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.


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