Title America's second tongue : American Indian education and the ownership of English, 1860-1900 / Ruth Spack

Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 231 pages) : illustrations Contents English and colonialist discourses -- Language, pedagogy, and ideology -- Reproduction and resistance -- Translingual ironies -- Transforming women : Zitkala-Ša's American Indian stories Summary This remarkable study sheds new light on American Indian mission, reservation, and boarding school experiences by examining the implementation of English-language instruction and its effects on Native students. A federally mandated system of English-only instruction played a significant role in dislocating Native people from their traditional ways of life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The effect of this policy, however, was more than another instance of cultural loss-English was transformed by and even empowered many Native students. Drawing on archival documents, autobiography, fiction, and English as a Second Language theory and practice, America's Second Tongue traces the shifting ownership of English as the language was transferred from one population to another and its uses were transformed by Native students, teachers, and writers Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-219) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject English language -- Study and teaching -- Indian speakers -- History -- 19th century Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation -- History -- 19th century Indians of North America -- Education -- History -- 19th century Indians of North America -- Languages -- History -- 19th century Language and education -- United States -- History -- 19th century Language and culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century Indians -- Education -- History -- 19th century Indians -- Cultural assimilation -- History -- 19th century Indians -- Cultural assimilation Indians -- Education English language -- Study and teaching -- Indian speakers Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation Indians of North America -- Education Indians of North America -- Languages Language and culture Language and education United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2001044414 ISBN 1280374608 9781280374609 9780803205918 0803205910

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