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Author Morgan, Mindy J.

Title The bearer of this letter : language ideologies, literacy practices, and the Fort Belknap Indian community / Mindy J. Morgan
Published Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 325 pages) : maps
Series Indigenous education
Indigenous education.
Contents Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Notes on Terminology and Abbreviations; Introduction: Fort Belknap and the Question of Indigenous-Language Literacy; 1. Before the Reservation: Language Practices and the Documentary Record; 2. Creating Boundaries: English Literacy in the Early Reservation Era; 3. English Only: Language Ideologies and the Limits of Literacy; 4. Shifts in Practice: Literacy during the Indian New Deal; 5. Bringing the Languages Back: Developing Bilingual Education at Fort Belknap; 6. The Nakoda Alphabet: Reimagining Literacy and Tradition
Summary New Literacies and Old WaysNotes; Bibliography; Index
The Bearer of This Letter illuminates the enduring effects of colonialism by examining the decades-long tension between written words and spoken words in a reservation community. Drawing on archival sources and her own extensive work in the community, Mindy J. Morgan investigates how historical understandings of literacy practices challenge current Indigenous language revitalization efforts on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Assiniboine Indians -- Education -- Montana -- Fort Belknap Indian Reservation
Assiniboine Indians -- Montana -- Fort Belknap Indian Reservation -- Languages
Hidatsa Indians -- Education -- Montana -- Fort Belknap Indian Reservation
Hidatsa Indians -- Montana -- Fort Belknap Indian Reservation -- Languages
Yankton dialect -- Montana -- Fort Belknap Indian Reservation
English language -- Study and teaching -- Montana -- Fort Belknap Indian Reservation
English language -- Written English -- Montana -- Fort Belknap Indian Reservation
Education, Bilingual -- Montana -- Fort Belknap Indian Reservation
Multicultural education -- Montana -- Fort Belknap Indian Reservation
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
HISTORY -- Native American.
Education, Bilingual
English language -- Study and teaching
English language -- Written English
Multicultural education
Social conditions
Yankton dialect
Reservat Ethnologie
Schule
anglais (langue) -- Assiniboine (peuple) -- Hidatsa (peuple) -- langues amérindiennes -- Fort Belknap Indian Reservation (Etats-Unis) -- 19e s. (fin) -- 20e s.
acculturation -- Assiniboine (peuple) -- Hidatsa (peuple) -- réserve (anthropologie) -- Etats-Unis -- 19e s. (fin) -- 20e s.
Assiniboine (peuple) -- écriture -- influence exercée -- Hidatsa (peuple) -- tradition orale amérindienne -- Etats-Unis -- 19e s. (fin) -- 20e s.
Assiniboine (peuple) -- culture -- enseignement -- influence exercée -- Hidatsa (peuple) -- Etats-Unis -- 19e s. (fin) -- 20e s.
SUBJECT Fort Belknap Indian Reservation (Mont.) -- History
Fort Belknap Indian Reservation (Mont.) -- Social conditions
Subject Montana -- Fort Belknap Indian Reservation
Montana
Montana.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009014554
ISBN 9780803226296
0803226292