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America's Second Tongue - American Indian Education and the Ownership of English, 1860-1900 (Hardcover)
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America's Second Tongue - American Indian Education and the Ownership of English, 1860-1900 (Hardcover)
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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. How was the
English language taught to Native students, and how did they
variably reproduce, resist, and manipulate this new way of
speaking, writing, and thinking? The perspectives and voices of
government officials, missionaries, European American and Native
teachers, and the students themselves reveal the rationale for the
policy, how it was implemented in curricula, and how students from
dozens of different Native cultures reacted differently to being
forced to communicate orally and in writing through a uniform
foreign language.
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