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Language Removal as an Instance of Colonial Genocide in the Fort Alexander Indian Residential School

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12967168
AutoresNatalia Ilyniak (University of South Florida, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume9
Fascículo2
Páginas76-97
Data de publicação2015-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGenocide Studies and Prevention (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1911-0359 • E-ISSN: 1911-9933
EditoraInternational Association of Genocide Scholars (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5038/1911-9933.9.2.1291
OpenAlexW1834974183
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas19

This paper demonstrates, through Sagkeeng First Nation narratives, how the Fort Alexander Indian Residential School (FAIRS) is a micro-instance of genocide in the context of language. An understanding is offered from the perspective of a settler colonial academic, in consideration of decolonizing principles. Using relational theory, namely Actor-Network Theory, this paper discusses how FAIRS’s practices were designed and operated to disrupt relations between children and their community by removing Anishinaabe language, and the ways children and their families negotiated and undermined these practices. Data was collected through critical narrative analysis and sociohistoric inquiry to identify and unpack the practice of language removal in FAIRS, as identified in Survivors’ testimonies, interviews, stories, and memoir

Ancient history · Archaeology · Colonialism · Genocide · Political science · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · History · Law · South Asian Studies and Conflicts