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Words Have a Past|Jane Griffith

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

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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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  • ISBN-13: 9781487521554
  • ISBN-10: 1487521553
  • Publisher: University of Toronto Press
  • Publish Date: April 2019
  • Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
  • Page Count: 328

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