Teaching civilization : gender, sexuality, race and class in two late nineteenth-century British Columbia missions

• Main Author: Greenwell, Kim
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2001
• Subjects: First Nations > British Columbia > Government relations; First Nations > Cultural assimilation > British Columbia; First Nations > Missions > British Columbia; First Nations > Colonization > British Columbia; Bourgeois; Indian; First Nations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11294

Despite the recent proliferation of work around the subject of residential schools, few analyses have deconstructed the concept of "civilizing the Indian" which animated the schools' agendas. This thesis examines the discourse of "civilization" as it was expressed and enacte...