America's Second Tongue: American Indian Education and the Ownership of English, 1860-1900

by Ruth Spack

This remarkable study sheds new light on American Indian mission, reservation, and boarding school experiences by examining the implementation of English-language instruction and its effects on Native students. A federally mandated system of English-only instruction played a significant role in dislocating Native people from their traditional ways of life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The effect of this policy, however, was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803242913
• ISBN13: 9780803242913
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"