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

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.
Author/Creator
Laura E. Donaldson
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No
Primary Source
No
Citation
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 1998, pp. 46-62
Publication Date
1998
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Articles -- Scholarly, peer reviewed
Format
Text -- PDF
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