Native Tongues

Native Tongues
Author: Sean P. Harvey
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2015-01-05
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0674289935

Exploring the morally entangled territory of language and race in 18th- and 19th-century America, Sean Harvey shows that whites’ theories of an “Indian mind” inexorably shaped by Indian languages played a crucial role in the subjugation of Native peoples and informed the U.S. government’s efforts to extinguish Native languages for years to come.