1996 November Report of the Auditor General of Canada [to the House of Commons]: Chapter 33: Indian and Northern Affairs--Funding Arrangements for First Nations
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[L. Denis Desautels]
Looks at characteristics of the population that would have found the mixed language useful and how it developed through marriages between traders and Indigenous women.
Chapter from: Language Contact in the Arctic: Northern Pidgins and Contact Languages edited by Ernst Håkon Jahr and Ingvild Broch
Discusses the early life of Budd (sakachuwescum), who was of Cree-HBC employee parentage and became the first ordained Indigenous missionary in British North-West America.
Sample chapter from Prophetic Identities: Indigenous Missionaries on British Colonial Frontiers, 1850-75.