Brief news story discusses history of residential schools, the apology by the Minister of Indian Affairs and some solutions to problems on the Indian Brook Reserve in Nova Scotia. Includes synopsis.
Duration: 5:13
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.