Paper Talk: A History of Libraries, Print Culture, and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada Before 1960

Chapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 1. Contexts and Foundations: Placing this history: literacy, books, libraries, and First Peoples Chapter 4 2. The Nineteenth Century: "Read, write, and worship God daily": The Missionary's tools: the written word, books, and education Chapter 5 3. First Quarter of the Twentieth Century: Books in the schools and Aboriginal literary initiatives Chapter 6 4. 1930 through 1960: Community development, philanthropy, and educational neglect: Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal literary perspectives Chapter 7 Conclusion: Knowledge keepers: libraries and the printed word Chapter 8 Appendix 1: Approved Supplementary Reading Books for Indian Schools, 1931-1938 Chapter 9 Appendix 2: Day School Libraries, 1943 Chapter 10 Bibliography Chapter 11 Index Chapter 12 About the Author