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- Title
COLONIZING MINDS: Public Education, the "Textbook Indian," and Settler Colonialism in British Columbia, 1920-1970.
- Authors
CARLETON, SEAN
- Abstract
The article discusses visual and textual depictions of indigenous peoples in social studies and history textbooks used in British Columbia's secondary public education system from 1920 to 1970. It notes that these textbooks were approved by the British Columbia Department of Education. The author examines Canadian discourses of British settler colonialism, nationalism, and nation building, suggesting that textbooks represented indigenous peoples as inferior, violent, and uncivilized. Indigenous activist Chief Dan George is also mentioned.
- Subjects
BRITISH Columbia; NATIVE Americans in textbooks; EDUCATION; COLONIES in textbooks; TEXTBOOKS -- History; HISTORY of British Columbia; GEORGE, Dan, 1899-1981; HISTORY
- Publication
BC Studies, 2011, Issue 169, p101
- ISSN
0005-2949
- Publication type
Article