Words Have a Past: The English Language, Colonialism, and the Newspapers of Indian Boarding Schools Music With contributions by Indigenous Elders

With contributions by Indigenous Elders

awarded by l'Institute d'histoire de l'Amérique francaise

The asterisk pattern on her inner shawl represents her authorship in her publication she did not initially put her name on the paper to avoid the scrutiny she would face as a woman publisher

As PM Mackenzie King wrote in 1947

Words Have a Past: The English Language, Colonialism, and the Newspapers of Indian Boarding Schools Music With contributions by Indigenous EldersFor 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.