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

Griffith, Jane 1983- (author.).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781487521554 (paperback)
Physical Description: print
regular print
xi, 314 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2019.
Copyright: ©2019.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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 -- Anachronism: reading the nineteenth century today -- Layout: space, place, and land -- Concluding thoughts.
Biographical or Historical Data:	"This book focuses on six newspapers written in English and published at five boarding schools: Shingwauk Industrial Home in Ontario (Our Forest Children, 1887-90 and the Canadian Indian, 1890-1); Battleford Industrial School in what would later be called Saskatchewan (Guide, 1891-9); Rupert's Land Industrial School in Manitoba (Aurora, 1893-5); Regina Industrial School in what would later be called Saskatchewan (Progress, 1894-1910?); and Kitamaat Home in British Columbia (Na-Na-Kwa, 1898-1907. More schools had printing programs and newspapers, but I focus on these six publications because they featured news on their schools as opposed to just the neighbouring settler town."--Author, page 16.