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Writing the Talking Stick: Alphabetic Literacy as Colonial Technology and Postcolonial Appropriation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Laura E. Donaldson
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 1998, pp. 46-62
Description
The author uses Out of the Depths, Isabel Knockwood’s autobiography about her time in Indian Residential School, to discuss English alphabet writing as a colonizing tool and as consider different ways that Indigenous peoples have appropriated English writing as a form of cultural survivance.
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