America's second tongue
Subtitle: American Indian education and the ownership of English, 1860-1900
By: Ruth Spack.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: English language -- Study and teaching -- Indian speakers -- History -- 19th century; Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation -- History -- 19th century; Indians of North America -- Education -- History -- 19th century; Indians of North America -- Languages -- History -- 19th century; Language and education -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Language and culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-219) and index.