Missions & Missionaries

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Hunger and the Humanitarian Frontier

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anne O'Brien
Aboriginal History, vol. 39, 2015, pp. 109-134
Description
Explores the relationship between loss of food and fears about Indigenous dependency as it played out in central and northern Australia from the 1920s to the 1950s.
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Ice Window: Letters From a Bering Strait Village 1892-1902

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Carolyn D. Redl
Northern Review, no. 25/26, Governance in the Provincial Norths, Summer, 2005, pp. 226-229
Description
Book review of, Ice Window: Letters From a Bering Strait Village 1892-1902 edited by Kathleen Lopp Smith and Verbeck Smith.
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Idioms of Sámi Health and Healing

Alternate Title
Patterns of Northern Traditional Healing
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Katelyn Friendship
Norma Kassi
Northern Review, no. 43, Nursing Education in the Circumpolar North, December 2016, pp. 139-142
Description
Book review of: Idioms of Sámi Health and Healing. Volume 2 edited by Barbara Helen Miller.
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The Impact of Canadian Residential Schools on the Inuit Who Attended Them

Alternate Title
INALCO 2009, Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference, Orality (Paris, 2006)
Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Jack Anawak
Description
Describes life as a student at a residential school starting in 1959 and a reunion of students twenty-five years later. Paper from Orality in the 21st Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices. Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference edited by B. Collingnon and M. Therrien.
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In Memory of My Cochoom Madelaine O'Soup Acoose

(circa 1890-1979)

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Janice Acoose
Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 12, no. 2, Indigenous Women in Canada: The Voices of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Women, Winter, 1992, pp. 87-88
Description
Author relates the life story of her Irish grandmother who was raised as Anishnabe.
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Indian Agents and the Residential School System in Canada, 1946-1970

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Vic Satzewich
Linda Mahood
Historical Studies in Education, vol. 7, no. 1, 1995, pp. 45-69
Description
Discusses government policy, the relationship between the Federal government, its officials and missionaries, and the impact of the government's move away from residential to local schools. The article includes the results of interviews with former Indian agents.
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Indian Dances and the Politics of Religious Freedom, 1870-1930

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tisa Wenger
Journal of the American Academy of Religion, vol. 79, no. 4, December 2011, pp. 850-878
Description
Examines Indigenous ceremonial practices, government and missionary attempts to suppress Indian dances, and cultural notions about what constitutes "religion".
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Indian Education Confronts the Seventies: History and Background of Indian Education: Volume 1

Alternate Title
Position Papers on Indian Education
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Vine Deloria
Lehman L. Brightman
Robert K. Thomas
Description
Presents three positions papers: Reflections on Contemporary Indian Education by Vine Deloria. An Historical Overview of Indian Education with Evaluations and Recommendations by Lehman L. Brightman. Eastern American Indian Communities by Robert K. Thomas.
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Indian Education in Canada: The Legacy, Volume 1

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Olive Patricia Dickason
Prairie Forum, vol. 12, no. 1, Spring, 1987, pp. 173-175
Description
Book review of: Indian Education in Canada: The Legacy, Volume 1 edited by Jean Barman, Yvonne Hébert and Don McCaskill.
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[Indian Education in Canada. Volume 1: The Legacy]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
D. Bruce Sealey
Native Studies Review, vol. 3, no. 1, 1987, pp. 160-162
Description
Book review of: Indian Education in Canada, Volume 1: The Legacy edited by Jean Barman, Yvonne Hebert and Don McCaskill.
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Indian Life in the Great North-West

E-Books
Description
Work of fiction by a missionary "to the North American Indian tribes North of Lake Winnipeg". Nine illustrations included. Published in Toronto by Musson Book Company.
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