Jane Griffith, 2019. Words Have a Past: The English Language, Colonialism, and the Newspapers of Indian Boarding Schools.

Abstract

the United States produced newspapers that were read by white settlers, government officials, and Indigenous parents. These newspapers were used as a settler colonial tool, yet within these tightly controlled chronicles there also existed sites of resistance. Illuminating and often deeply moving, this book traces colonial narratives of language, time, and place from the nineteenth century to the present day, post–Truth and Reconciliation Commission.