Missions & Missionaries

Reports on the way Jesuit missionaries heard, recorded and reported the beliefs of the Wendat (Huron) people and how this may have shaped the context of the translations.

Book review of The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites Entire issue on one PDF. To access this review scroll to p. 33.

Provides individual titles and links to all 73 volumes within the set.

Review of the film, The Mission, that contends the underlying message in it is to free the colonizers of their guilt and doubt, which undermines the film's central allegory of physical and spiritual genocide of conquered Native Americans.

Book review of: The Jesus Road by Luke Eric Lassiter, Clyde Ellis, and Ralph Kotay. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Review essay discusses the Roxbury, Massachusetts minister's work, covering 1604-1690, and discusses the reasons why there's renewed multidisciplinary interest in Eliot.

Observations on John Eliot's missionary interactions with Native Americans.

History Thesis (M.A.)--Central Missouri State University, 2002.

Seventh edition.

Diary details the journey undertaken by the author, her husband, Rev. Canon Edward Matheson, Kate Halson, and Archdeacon Mackay to visit the Indian missions. Includes stops in Cumberland House, Sturgeon Landing, and smaller village sites. Part 1 ends with the party’s arrival at the Lac La Ronge Mission. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 66.

Diary details the journey under taken by the author, her husband, Rev. Canon Edward Matheson, Kate Halson, and Archdeacon Mackay to visit the Indian missions. Includes stops in Cumberland House, Sturgeon Landing, and smaller village sites. Part 2 details the party’s return to The Pas. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 109.

Book review of: Journey from Fisher River by Joyce Carlson.

Looks at two narratives and the common themes that emerge.

Book review of: Kahnawá:ke: Factionalism, Traditionalism, and Nationalism in a Mohawk Community by Gerald F. Reid.

Book review of: Keeping the Faith / Uppirniqainnarniq by Frédéric Laugrand, Jarich Oosten and Maaki Kakkik with the participation of Inuit elders Pauloosie Angmarlik, Naqi Ekho, Saullu Nakasuk, Kullu Pitsiulak and Simon Shaimaijuk, Inuktitut text translated and edited by Maaki Kakkik and Alexina Kublu, Iqaluit, Language and Culture Program of Nunavut Arctic Collège, Memory and History in Nunavut / Nunavummi iqqaumajaumajullu qanuinnirijausimajullu ilangit. Review in French.

Book review of: Best Left as Indians: Native-White Relations in the Yukon Territory, 1840-1973 by Ken Coates.

Communication Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2017.

Profiles a woman and her work with missions in Australia.

Early history of this British Columbia community founded by Nisga'a Christians and Anglican missionary, Reverend Robert Tomlinson.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--American University, 2000.

Published by the Aboriginal Catholic Ministries school located in Grouard, Alberta.

Provides historical information on relations between Moravian missionaries and the Inuit of Labrador.

Film explores the impact of forced relocation on the Labrador people to larger communities. Duration: 37:33.

Book review of: The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge: History and Contemporary Practice by Raymond A. Bucko.

Book review of: Lakotas, Black Robes, and Holy Women edited by Karl Markus Kreis.

This booklet written for the Western Development Museum Travelling Exhibition examines the religious attitudes and beliefs of Western Canadians to the land from earliest times to the present. The display seeks to facilitate understanding of man's relationship with the land and God.

Humanities Thesis (M.A.)--Laurentian University, 2019.

Looks at a Reverend who introduced a bilingual language policy at an Aboriginal mission station.

Film relates story of influenza epidemic on the town of Okak, Labrador in 1919. Duration: 23:52.

Highlights author's childhood memories of growing up at Finniss Springs.

Book review essay of: English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750–1830 by Hilary E. Wyss. Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature by Birgit Rasmussen. On Records: Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory by Andrew Newman.

Discusses how the Catholic Church's statement of regret has helped First Nations people move forward.

Comments on the lack of role models and the issue of irrelevant curriculum.

Book review of: Leaving Paradise: Indigenous Hawaiians in the Pacific Northwest, 1987-1898 by Jean Barman, Bruce McIntyre Watson. Scroll down to page 111 to read review.

Focuses on the years 1610 to 1750 and the Northeastern Algonquian in Maine and the Maritime provinces.

History Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, 1986.

Account of missionary's travels and contact with Aborigines.

American Indian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2012.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 1997.

Includes extensive appendices of statements from chiefs and religious representatives attached to the letter expressing expressing concerns about a wide range of issues including government policy application, conduct and breach of promises by Indian Agents, relationship between missionaries, government and Indian Agents, potlatch law, survey of First Nations lands, Commission and other matters.