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OverviewFor 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jane GriffithPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.60cm Weight: 0.480kg ISBN: 9781487521554ISBN 10: 1487521553 Pages: 328 Publication Date: 08 April 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of Contents"1. Bury the Lede: Introduction 2. Printer’s Devil: The Trade of Newspapers 3. Indigenous Languages Did Not Disappear: English Language Instruction 4. ""Getting Indian Words"": Representations of Indigenous Languages 5. Ahead by a Century: Time on Paper 6. Anachronism: Reading the Nineteenth Century Today 7. Layout: Space, Place, and Land 8. Concluding Thoughts"ReviewsGriffith has produced a nuanced exploration of the tensions and contradictions that not only marked the past in the form of the Residential School system, but has always existed and continues to exist in a web of related assumptions. -- Anne Lindsay * <em>Prairie History</em> * Griffith has produced a nuanced exploration of the tensions and contradictions that not only marked the past in the form of the Residential School system, but has always existed and continues to exist in a web of related assumptions. -- Anne Lindsay * <em>Prairie History</em> * [Words Have a Past] is a marvelous exploration of the language of colonialism, how the English language was cast as an innocent neutral force, and how this continues to be reflected in contemporary Canada. The book is easily accessible for all readers, well researched, and documented. It is simply a must-read that will aid in developing a deeper understanding of language, and colonialism roots and their ongoing impact in the present. -- Karl Hele, Mount Allison University * <em>Anishinabek News</em> * Words Have a Past is an important contribution to the ongoing conversation on the assimilation policies of the Indigenous boarding school systems in North America, and importantly, Griffith's message of settler responsibility and restitution for Indigenous linguicide and land loss is essential for all settlers to hear. -- Carling Beninger, University of Alberta * <em>Canadian Journal of History </em> * Words Have a Past marks an important step in the study of residential school history by drawing our attention to newspapers as important historical sources, and the printing trade as an influential part of some students' experiences. Further, in anchoring the book within critical Indigenous and Settler Colonial studies, Griffith provides a direction for scholarship on residential schooling that challenges approaches that situate the system wholly in the past; as a result of her conclusions, Griffith explicitly calls for justice and restitution-especially as it relates to language reclamation-for survivors and their communities. This is an essential read for those studying the residential school system, settler colonialism, history of media, and Canadian history. -- Natalie Cross and Thomas Peace, Huron University College * <em>Journal of British Studies</em> * In this well researched and highly readable book, Jane Griffith analyzes six newspapers published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century by five Indian boarding schools. -- Shurli Makmillen, Claflin University * <em>Discourse and Writing</em> * Author InformationJane Griffith is Assistant Professor in the School of Professional Communication at Ryerson University in Toronto. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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