America's second tongue
American Indian education and the ownership of English, 1860-1900
by Ruth Spack
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Language and education, Indians of North America, Indian speakers, Cultural assimilation, English language, Language and culture, Languages, Study and teaching, Education, History, English language, study and teaching, foreign speakers, Indians of north america, cultural assimilation, Indians of north america, education, Indians of north america, languagesPlaces
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America's second tongue: American Indian education and the ownership of English, 1860-1900
2002, University of Nebraska Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-219) and index.
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