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

The pre-1960 history of print culture and libraries, as they relate to the First Peoples of Canada, has gone largely untold. Paper Talk explores the relationship between the introduction of western print culture to Aboriginal peoples by missionaries, the development of libraries in the Indian schools in the nineteenth century, and the establishment of community—accessible collections in the twentieth century. While missionaries and the Department of Indian Affairs envisioned books and libra...