"The Dayspring From on High Hath Visited Us": An Examination of the Missionary Endeavours of the Moravians and the Anglican Church Missionary Society Among the Inuit in the Arctic Regions of Canada and Labrador, 1880s-1920s
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Author/Creator
Davena Davis
Description
Religious Studies Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 1987.
"National publication for the Indians of Canada". Focus on Indigenous issues, events at residential schools and legal decisions. Previously published as Indian Missionary Record.
Articles reflect the attitudes and polices of the time.
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 39, no. 1, Les Inuit au Labrador méridional / Inuit in Southern Labrador, 2015, pp. 141-164
Description
Paper provides documentation in support of Inuit entrepreneurs as catalysts for the abundance of trade goods rather than the missionaries or the merchants.
American Anthropologist, vol. 52, no. 4, New Series, October-December 1950, p. 564
Description
Letter argues that the word derives from Excomminqui or "excommunicated ones", and is a name given by 17th century Jesuits who assessed the people of the Labrador coast as "hostile and pagan.".
Sexualities, vol. 6, no. 1, February 2003, pp. [46]-53
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Discusses the fact that while Innu students experienced equal rates of abuse from authority figures, because the abuse took place in day schools rather than residential it has no been fully acknowledged.
London Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 16, Continuities and Changing Realities: Meanings and Identities Among Canadas Aboriginal People, 2000/2001, pp. 89-108
Description
Looks the history of education in the communities of Sheshatshiu and Utshimassits (Davis Inlet).