Missions & Missionaries
Theses
Author/Creator
Jonathan W. Olson
Description
Religion Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida State University, 2014.
[Appraising Cole Harris' Making Native Space]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Keith Thor Carlson
Sarah Carter
Kate McPherson
James Murton
Cole Harris
Native Studies Review, vol. 16, no. 2, 2005, pp. 125-149
Description
Book review of: Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia by Cole Harris. Comments by Cole about the review also included.
Arapahoe Politics, 1851-1978: Symbols in Crises of Authority
E-Books
Author/Creator
Loretta Fowler
The Archaeology of Mission Santa Catalina de Guale: 2. Biocultural Interpretations of a Population in Transition.
Alternate Title
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History ; no. 68
E-Books
Author/Creator
Clark Spencer Larsen
Georgia Irene Mound
Mary Lucas Powell
Katherine F. Russell
Inui Choi ... [et al.]
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History
Archbishop A. -A. Taché of St. Boniface: The "Good Fight" and the Illusive Vision
Book Reviews
Alberta History, vol. 52, no. 1, Winter, 2004, p. 27
Description
Book review of: Archbishop A.-A. Taché of St. Boniface by Raymond Huel.
Archbishop A.-A. Taché of St. Boniface. The "Good Fight" and the Illusive Vision
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Pierre Hurtubise
Catholic Historical Review, vol. 91, no. 1, 2005, pp. 192-195
Description
Book review of: Archbishop A.-A. Taché of St. Boniface by Raymond Huel.
Archdeacon Thomas Vincent of Moosonee and the Handicap of 'Metis' Racial Status
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John S. Long
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 1983, pp. 95-116
Description
Although Church Missionary Society (CMS) policy stated their intention to promote Indigenous people in the church, historians question whether it was biased in its practises in late 1800s.
'Arctic Bodies, Frontier Souls': Missionaries and Medical Care in the Canadian North, 1896-1926
Theses
Author/Creator
Walter J. Vanast
Description
History of Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1996.
Are the Eastern Industrial Training Schools for Indian Children a Failure?
Alternate Title
[A Crisis in the Cause of Indian Education]
[Captain Pratt and His Work for Indian Education]
[Captain Pratt and His Work]
[Christian Schools among the Indians: A Letter from Bishop Hare]
[Hampton's Indian Students at Home]
[Statistics Relating to Indian Schools, 1882]
[The Church and the Indians]
E-Books
Author/Creator
[Helen W. Ludlow
James McLaughlin
Elaine Goodale
William H. Hare
Herbert Welsh
Charles Warren]
Description
Pamphlet produced in response to debates in Congress on the Indian Appropriation Bill. Includes various letters, articles, statistics, extract from Congressional Record, and The Indian School at Carlisle Barracks, published by U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education in 1880.
The Arizona Apaches and Christianization: A Study of Lutheran Missionary Activity, 1893-1943
Theses
Author/Creator
Lenard E. Brown
Description
History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arizona, 1963.
Articles and Reviews: Foyer Display, Lac St. Anne
Documents & Presentations
Description
Material concerns the history of Lac St. Anne, and involves the conversion of the indigenous peoples there.
As It Was In The Beginning
Alternate Title
Moccasin Maker
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
E. Pauline Johnson
Description
Short story about a young girl placed in a mission school.
Chapter from The Moccasin Maker by E. Pauline Johnson.
Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory
E-Books
Author/Creator
Qwo-Li Driskill
Assimilation and Identity Among the Kodiak Island Sugpiat
Alternate Title
Inuit Studies Conference ; 17th, 2010
[Inuit People and the Aboriginal World]
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Gordon L. Pullar
Description
Discusses the early years of Russian occupation and education on Kodiak Island, and the suppression of language and culture by the American education system.
At Home and Industriously Employed: The Women's National Indian Association
Theses
Author/Creator
Carol Anne Chase Lastowka
Description
Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arizona, 1994.
At the Hearth of the Crossed Races: A French-Indian Community in Nineteenth-Century Oregon, 1812-1859; Great Lakes Creoles: A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, 1750-1860
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jean Barman
BC Studies, no. 191, Autumn, 2016, pp. 137-138
Description
Book reviews of: At the Hearth of the Crossed Races by Melinda Marie Jette.
Great Lakes Creoles by Lucy Eldersveld Murphy.
Scrol down to page 137 ro read reviews.
"At the Hearth of the Crossed Races": Intercultural Relations and Social Change in French Prairie, Oregon, 1812-1843
Theses
Author/Creator
Melinda Marie Jetté
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia, 2004.
Au Nom du Bon Dieu et du Buffalo: Métis Lived Catholicism on the Northern Plains
Theses
Author/Creator
Émilie Pigeon
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2017.
Authenticating Mäori Physicality: Translations of "Games' and 'Pastimes' by Early Travellers and Missionaries to New Zealand
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brendan Hokowhitu
International Journal of the History of Sport, vol. 25, no. 10, September 2008, pp. 1355-1373
Description
Looks at how Indigenous Tribal activities and practices were understood and interpreted by early colonizers as either authentic or inauthentic.
The Autocracy of Love and the Legitimacy of Empire: Intimacy, Power and Scandal in Nineteenth-Century Metlakahtlah
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Adele Perry
Gender & History, vol. 16, no. 2, August 2004, pp. 261-288
Description
Discusses missionary William Duncan and his Mission House, a residential school for Tsimshian girls.
B.W. Currie and Unidentified Inuk Man Outside Igloo
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Department of Physics fonds
University of Saskatchewan
Description
Mission visible in background.
[Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Lisa J. Udel
The American Indian Quarterly, vol. 40, no. 1, Winter, 2016, pp. 76-79
Description
Book review of: Bad Indians by Deborah A. Miranda.
The Banners of Grace and Love Displayed in the Farther Conversion of the Indians in New-England: Held Forth in Sundry Letters from Divers Ministers to the Corporation Established by Parliament, for Promoting the Gospel amongst the Heathen in New-England: and Farther attested by Edm. Callamy, Simon Ashe, VVill Spurstow, Lazarus Seaman, George Griffith, Phil Nye, VVilliam Bridge, Henry VVhitfield, Joseph Carryll, Ralph Venning
Alternate Title
Early English Books Online
E-Books
p. [18], 40
Baraga
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Graham A. MacDonald
The Beaver, vol. 74, no. 5, October-November 1994, pp. 4-?
Description
Profiles the life and role played by Frederic Baraga, a Catholic missionary among North American Indigenous peoples in the early 1800s.
[Battle for the Soul: Métis Children Encounter Evangelical Protestants at Mackinaw Mission, 1823-1837]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Brenda Macdougall
Native Studies Review, vol. 13, no. 2, 2000, pp. 151-153
Description
Book review of: Battle for the Soul: Métis Children Encounter Evangelical Protestants at Mackinaw Mission, 1823-1837 by Keith R. Widder.
Beardy Grants a Historic Absolution
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Solange De Santis
Anglican Journal, vol. 127, no. 7, September 2001, p. Insert
Description
Oji-Cree Bishop accepts apology from Archbishop Peers, originally offered in 1993, with respect to the abuses of the residential school system.
Beaver, Bison, and Black Robes: Montana's Fur Trade, 1800-1860
Alternate Title
Montana: Stories of the Land
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Krys Holmes
Description
Discusses how the demand for beaver pelts brought about a new economy, the shift from hunting beaver to hunting bison, and the impact of missionaries.
Chapter from Chapter from Montana: Stories of the Land by Krys Holmes..
"Because I Happen to Be a Native Clergyman": The Impact of Race, Ethnicity, Status, and Gender on Native Agents of the Church Missionary Society in the Nineteenth Century Canadian North-West
Theses
Author/Creator
Derek Whitehouse-Strong
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Manitoba, 2004.
Before Canada: Toward an Ethnohistory of Indian Education
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
David W. Adams
History of Education Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 1, Spring, 1988, pp. 95-105
Description
Book review of: Indian Education in Canada, volumes 1 and 2 edited by Jean Barman, Yvonne Hébert and Don McCaskill.
"Behold Me and This Great Babylon I Have Built": The Life and Work of Sophia Sawyer, 19th Century Missionary and Teacher Among the Cherokees
Theses
Author/Creator
Teri L. Castelow
Description
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida State University, 2005.
Being Yup'ik, Being Christian: Ethnicity and Christianity in Sivuqaq
Theses
Author/Creator
Carol Zane Jolles
Description
Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 1990
Bella Bella: A Season of Heiltsuk Art
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Karen Duffek
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 3/4, Summer/Autumn, 1999, pp. 198-200
Description
Book review of: Bella Bella by Martha Black.
Bella Coola: "...A Romantic History..."
E-Books
Author/Creator
Cliff Kopas
Beneath the Underdog: Race, Religion, and the Trail of Tears
Alternate Title
Beneath the Underdog Race, Religion, and the Trail of Tears
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patrick Minges
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 3, Summer, 2001, pp. 453-479
Description
Chronicles racism and religious intolerance surrounding Native Americans and African Americans and their relationship with each other.
Best Left as Indians: Native-White Relations in the Yukon Territory, 1840-1950
Theses
Author/Creator
Kenneth Stephen Coates
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia, 1984.
Best Left as Indians: Native-White Relations in the Yukon Territory, 1840-1973
Alternate Title
McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History ; 11
E-Books
Author/Creator
Ken S. Coates
Betraying the Victims: The 'Stolen Generations' Report
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Ron Brunton
IPA Backgrounder, vol. 10, no. 1, February 1998, pp. 1-24
Description
Disputes issues discussed in the 1997 national inquiry report, Bringing Them Home, such as specific cases, comparison of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal child removal and the claim of genocide.
Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Life of Henry Bird Steinhauer
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Norman Knowles
Historical Papers: Canadian Society of Church History, 2012, pp. [173]-185
Description
Biography of one of the first Methodist missionary of Canadian West Aboriginal ancestry.
Beyond Words: Nonverbal Communication, Performance, and Acculturation in the Early French-Indian Atlantic (1500-1701)
Theses
Author/Creator
Céline Carayon
Description
History Thesis (Ph.D.)--College of William and Mary, 2010.
Bible, Gender and Nationalism in American Indian and Christian Right Activism
Theses
Author/Creator
Andrea Lee Smith
Description
Sociology and Women's Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 2002.
Bibliography of Sources on Dena’ina and Cook Inlet Anthropology through 2016, Final Version 4.3
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
James Kari
Alan Boraas
Aaron Leggett
R. Greg Dixon
Description
Extensive list (169 p.) features a wide array of "grey literature" sources from Alaska state and federal agencies, tribal groups, and privately produced publications.
Birch Bark Talking: A Resumé of the Life and Work of the Rev. James Evans
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
James Evans Centenary Committee
Description
Booklet on the life of Rev. James Evans, a Wesleyan / Methodist missionary who initially translated Bible passages and psalms into Ojibway, and later created writing systems for several Aboriginal languages, including Ojibwe, Cree, and indirectly Inuktitut.
"The Birth of a Catholic Inuit Community. The Transition to Christianity in Pelly Bay, Nunavut, 1935-1950"
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Cornelius H. W. Remie
Jarich Oosten
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 26, no. 1, Inuit and Qallunaaq perspectives: Interacting Points of View, 2002, pp. 109-142
Description
Looks at the formative years of the transition to Catholicism including religious, political and economic factors.
Bishop Breyn[a]t Giving Evidence Before Government Agents at Fort Providence, NWT.
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Emrys Jones
Description
File note: First Dominion of Canada court enquiry in the far north.
Bishop Breynat and Capt. Hastings at Fort Providence, NWT.
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Emrys Jones
Bishop Durieu's Chinook Bible History
Documents & Presentations
Description
Chinook Bible History (CBH) was translated into Chinook shorthand by Father LeJeune and published in sections in the Kamloops Wawa in it's entirety the year of Bishop Durieu's death. Similar to the newsletter format, CBH includes English titles with the main text in Chinook shorthand. The author's name is misspelled in CBH as "Bishop Durien."
Bishop Hare's Indian Boarding Schools in South Dakota
E-Books
Author/Creator
Frederick Foote Johnson
Bishop Newnham distributing a treat to the Native peoples
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
J.A. Newnham
Description
A black and white photograph of Bishop J. A. Newnham distributing treats to a large group of Aboriginal children. The children sit in semi-circles on the ground outside, and are dressed in western clothing. This picture may have been taken at a residential school near Sandy Lake, Saskatchewan.
[Bishop's Residence and Roman Catholic Church] - Postcard.
Images » Photographs
Description
[Bishop's Residence and Roman Catholic Church] at Hudson's Bay Mission. Unidentified building at far right; summer scene.
Bishops "Dismayed" at Negotiations' Pace
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Solange De Santis
Anglican Journal, vol. 127, no. 6, June 2001, p. 7
Description
Debate best course of action to protest lack of progress in talks with federal government concerning the residential schools issue.