“MUCH OF WHAT WE LEARN ABOUT INDIANS, WE LEARN AS CHILDREN”: COUNTER-IMAGES TO BIASED AND DISTORTED PERCEPTIONS OF FIRST NATIONS IN NATIVE CANADIAN JUVENILE LITERATURE
In Canada, many spelling and arithmetic books, as well as other simple books for school beginners perpetuate numerous falsehoods about Native peoples, which need to be eradicated. First Nations are not heathen savages always carrying tomahawks, bows and arrows, nor are they objects to be counted alo...
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| Language: | eng |
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2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.19/2497 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:repositorio.ipv.pt:10400.19/2497 |