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

Description: America's Second Tongue by Ruth Spack Sheds light on American Indian mission, reservation, and boarding school experiences by examining the implementation of English language instruction and its effects on Native students. This book traces the shifting ownership of English as the language was transferred from one population to another and its uses were transformed by Native students. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description "Spacks critique of the United States harsh, colonizing English language education policies for American Indians is powerful, illuminating, and groundbreaking." - Stephanie Vandrick, University of San Francisco. "A lucid, nuanced, and authoritative account of a history that has been neglected...Like their counterparts in contemporary society, the Native peoples of the day regularly succeeded in talking back to the empire that was colonizing them, using the masters tools to dismantle the masters house. This book compellingly explores that process." - Ilona Leki, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. "[Spack] provides us with an opportunity to examine the past - present continuity of the politics and possibilities involved in teaching esl. Americas Second Tongue is truly a rare contribution to the field." - Ryuko Kubota, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 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 more than another instance of cultural loss-English was transformed by and even empowered many Native students. Drawing on archival documents, autobiography, fiction, and English as a Second Language theory and practice, Americas 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. Ruth Spack is an associate professor of English and the director of English for Speakers of Other Languages Programs at Bentley College. She is a coeditor of Negotiating Academic Literacies: Readings on Teaching and Learning across Cultures. Author Biography Ruth Spack is an associate professor of English and the director of English for Speakers of Other Languages Programs at Bentley College. She is a coeditor of Negotiating Academic Literacies: Teaching and Learning across Languages and Cultures. Table of Contents List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments Introduction 1. English and Colonialist Discourses 2. Language, Pedagogy, and Ideology 3. Reproduction and Resistance 4. Translingual Ironies 5. Transforming Women: Zitkala-as American Indian Stories Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index Review "This important study. . . . deserves to be read not only by those interested in 19th-century Indian affairs and language, but by all students of American History."—Choice"For those interested in language ideology, there is much to learn here. For anyone who engages in fieldwork in contemporary Indian communities, the history of English language education in Indian schools in the late nineteenth century provides a revealing context for English language use on reservations in the twentieth century. The study is clearly written and well-researched. . . . Any scholar willing to take up such a study will find much in this work to show the way."—Mark van de Logt, Anthropological Linguistics"Americas Second Tongue deserves a wide reading by scholars in such diverse fields as Native-American studies, bilingual education, and educational history. Rarely does one encounter a study so carefully crafted, theoretically informed, and discerning in historical insight."—David Adams, History of Education Quarterly"Interesting not only in its own right but also for its wide-ranging implications about the status of English in America. . . . Ruth Spack has written an important book that is richly informed by contemporary literary, linguistic, and anthropological theory without ever being overwhelmed by it. She writes with admirable grace and clarity. And her fair minded analysis does not obscure her passion about this vexed subject and all it implies."—Kim Moreland, Southern Humanities Review"This volume is an important contribution to the history of American Indian education and the history of English literacy instruction in America. The author complicates our understanding of the role of Euroamerican teachers and Native American teachers as women who served as mediators between policy and practice. Finally, by focusing on student subversion of linguistic control, the text adds shading and nuance to what frequently has been a one-sided depiction of Manifest Destiny and the U.S. West, reminding scholars that English is not Americas mother tongue, but its second tongue."—Amanda J. Cobb, New Mexico Historical Review"A fine linguistic and cultural analysis of the complicated transitions from Native languages to the second language of the books title, English."—P. Jane Hafen, Great Plains Quarterly Review Text ""This important study. . . . deserves to be read not only by those interested in 19th-century Indian affairs and language, but by all students of American History.""-- Choice "For those interested in language ideology, there is much to learn here. For anyone who engages in fieldwork in contemporary Indian communities, the history of English language education in Indian schools in the late nineteenth century provides a revealing context for English language use on reservations in the twentieth century. The study is clearly written and well-researched. . . . Any scholar willing to take up such a study will find much in this work to show the way."--Mark van de Logt, Anthropological Linguistics " Americas Second Tongue deserves a wide reading by scholars in such diverse fields as Native-American studies, bilingual education, and educational history. Rarely does one encounter a study so carefully crafted, theoretically informed, and discerning in historical insight."--David Adams, History of Education Quarterly "Interesting not only in its own right but also for its wide-ranging implications about the status of English in America. . . . Ruth Spack has written an important book that is richly informed by contemporary literary, linguistic, and anthropological theory without ever being overwhelmed by it. She writes with admirable grace and clarity. And her fair minded analysis does not obscure her passion about this vexed subject and all it implies."--Kim Moreland, Southern Humanities Review ""This volume is an important contribution to the history of American Indian education and the history of English literacy instruction in America. The author complicates our understanding of the role of Euroamerican teachers and Native American teachers as women who served as mediators between policy and practice. Finally, by focusing on student subversion of linguistic control, the text adds shading and nuance to what frequently has been a one-sided depiction of Manifest Destiny and the U.S. West, reminding scholars that English is not Americas mother tongue, but its second tongue.""--Amanda J. Cobb, New Mexico Historical Review ""A fine linguistic and cultural analysis of the complicated transitions from Native languages to the second language of the books title, English.""--P. Jane Hafen, Great Plains Quarterly Review Quote "This volume is an important contribution to the history of American Indian education and the history of English literacy instruction in America. The author complicates our understanding of the role of Euroamerican teachers and Native American teachers as women who served as mediators between policy and practice. Finally, by focusing on student subversion of linguistic control, the text adds shading and nuance to what frequently has been a one-sided depiction of Manifest Destiny and the U.S. West, reminding scholars that English is not Americas mother tongue, but its second tongue."-Amanda J. Cobb, New Mexico Historical Review Details ISBN0803242913 Author Ruth Spack Short Title AMER 2ND TONGUE Language English ISBN-10 0803242913 ISBN-13 9780803242913 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2002 Imprint University of Nebraska Press Subtitle American Indian Education and the Ownership of English, 1860-1900 Place of Publication Lincoln Country of Publication United States Affiliation Tufts University, Massachusetts Publisher University of Nebraska Press UK Release Date 2002-06-01 AU Release Date 2002-06-01 NZ Release Date 2002-06-01 US Release Date 2002-06-01 Pages 231 Publication Date 2002-06-01 DEWEY 306.440899709034 Illustrations Illus. Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159627787;

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