Missions & Missionaries

Book review of: Letters from the Rocky Mountain Indian Missions edited by Robert Bigart.

From: Missionary Review of the World ; volume XVIII, number 7, old series. July, volume VIII, number 7, new series.

The first edition in1691 was published under the title: The Triumphs of the Reformed Religion in America: the Life of the Renowned John Eliot.

"The Life, History and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (George Copway): A Young Indian Chief of the [Ojibwa]Nation, a Convert to the Christian Faith and a Missionary to His People for Twelve Years; With a Sketch of the Present State of the [Ojibwa] Nation in regard to Christianity and their Future Prospects. Also an Appeal with all the Names of the Chiefs now Living, who have been Christianized, and the Missionaries now Laboring Among Them" Other books by same author on iPORTAL.

Book review of: Lines in the Ice by Phillip J. Hatfield.

Discussion of the pressures brought to bear on Aboriginals to conform with Victorian notions of privacy and home life.

Religious Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 1997.

Discussion of power and class in Protestant mission work in British Columbia.

Book review of: Loose Leaves by W.G.F. Poland ; translated from the German by Herma E. Roehrs. Review located by scrolling to page 180.

Book review of: The Lord's Distant Vineyard by Vincent J. McNally.

Discusses Gwich'in Reverend Albert E. Tritt's role in the development of Bishop Rowe Chapel and the combining of spirituality and Christianity.

Book reviews of: The Lost Children edited by Coral Edwards and Peter Read. Reaching Back edited by Judy Thomson. Reviews located by scrolling to page 237.

Suggests that the adoption of Aboriginal children by white people was a continuation of residential school policies.

Reconstructs Mary Ann Battis's case and offers a hypothesis about her motivation for staying with foreign missionaries while her family was removed.

Overview of the myth model of the ten lost tribes of ancient Israel and the way missionaries used this to remake Indigenous history.

This file contains correspondence and speeches, some of which are scanned for this database. This first letter scanned describes her understanding of Aboriginal customs and spirituality. The second is a speech she gave about the history of the Mission and its founder, Reverend James Nisbet.

This file contains an original copy of Lucy Margaret Baker: A Memoir, compiled by Elizabeth A. Byers and published by Women's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, 1920. It discusses her work with the Cree near Prince Albert, Sask. (Mistawasis Reserve), her teaching at Nisbet Academy, her work during North-West Rebellion, and her efforts to help an "outcast band of Sioux."

[Anthropology] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Florida, 2005.

Comments on historical highlights including the role missionaries and employees of the Hudson's Bay Company played in the development of carving. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 4.

Describes how Rev. James Evans came to invent Cree syllabics for the use of his students at Norway House.

Looks at limited access to incriminating archival documents about genocidal tactics used against Aboriginal people and promotes importance of archival preservation of all materials retrieved through IAP (Independent Assessment Process) proceedings.

Discusses the impact the Mennonite missionaries had on the Hopi from 1893 to 1933.

Examines how the portrayal of Kateri Tekakwitha, who lived in the 17th century, reflects religious treatment and attitudes towards Aboriginals

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1980.

Describes the factors leading to the (apparent) quick conversion to Christianity.

Shows locations of Church Missionary Society, Catholic and Methodist missions, and Northwest Mounted Police, army and Hudson's Bay Company posts.

Lists historical American materials held at the library.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University, 1955.

Memoirs of Rev. David Brainerd, with a separate essay God's Hand in Missions by Arthur T. Pierson (located at page liii).

Essay argues that Henry Neufeld did not expect the Ojibwa to reject all of their cultural traditions and religious practices when they accepted Christianity.

Compares Hine's missionary journals written in the 1870s and 80s to his autobiography written in 1915.