Paper Talk: A History of Libraries, Print Culture, and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada before 1960

by EDWARDS, BRENDAN FREDERICK R.

• ISBN13: 9780810851139
• ISBN10: 081085113X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Summary

The pre-1960 history of print culture and libraries, as they relate to the First Peoples of Canada, has gone largely untold. Paper Talk explores the relationship between the introduction of western print culture to Aboriginal peoples by missionaries, the development of libraries in the Indian schools in the nineteenth century, and the establishment of community-accessible collections in the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	ix
1 Contexts and Foundations	1	(20)
Placing this history: literacy, books, libraries, and First Peoples
2 The Nineteenth Century	21	(52)
"Read, write, and worship God daily" The Missionary's tools: the written word, books, and education
3 First Quarter of the Twentieth Century	73	(48)
Books in the schools and Aboriginal literary initiatives
4 1930 through 1960	121	(42)
Community development, philanthropy, and educational neglect: Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal literary perspectives
Conclusion Knowledge keepers: libraries and the printed word	163	(8)
Appendix 1 Approved Supplementary Reading Books for Indian Schools, 1931-1938	171	(10)
Appendix 2 Day School Libraries, 1943	181	(8)
Bibliography	189	(20)
Index	209	(12)
About the Author	221