By Sean Graham
In this episode, I amjoined by Jane Griffith, author of Words Have a Past: The English Language, Colonialism, and the Newspapers of Indian Boarding Schools to talk about the significance and legacy of Indian boarding school newspapers. We talk about why schools published newspapers, who the intended audiences were, and the information they did not include. We also discuss the power of language, colonial efforts towards linguicide, and the legacy of how language was policed in residential schools.
Historical Headline of the Week
Victoria Daily Colonist, “Indian Schools Deal out Death,” November 16, 1907.
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Sean Graham is a media historian, an Adjunct Professor at Carleton University, and a contributing editor with Activehistory.ca
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