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Peer reviewedDonaldson, Laura E. – American Indian Quarterly, 1998
Draws on Isabelle Knockwood's memoir about Mi'kmaw children's experiences in a Nova Scotia boarding school to examine the contradictory impacts of English literacy on American-Indian peoples and cultures. Discusses literacy as a weapon of colonial assimilation and, conversely, the appropriation of literacy within a Mi'kmaw system of knowledge…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, American Indian History, Boarding Schools
