Missions & Missionaries
Protestant Missionaries and Native Culture: Parallel Careers of Asher Wright and Silas T. Rand
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Thomas S. Abler
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 1, Winter, 1992, pp. 25-37
Description
Author examines the writings and compares the careers of two missionaries working to convert Indigenous peoples in North America; focuses on the missionaries’ engagement with the elders, storytellers and culture of the nations.
Provincial Archives of Alberta: "Indians and Missionaries"
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Brock Silversides (photographer)
Ernest Brown (photographer)
Description
Title: "Indians and Missionaries". (From left): Rev. J. McDougall, Chief Samson, Chief Pakan, Rev. R.B. Steinh[?], Chief Jonas Big Stoney. Studio portrait.
Provincial Archives of Alberta: "St. Albert Convent"
Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
Brock Silversides (photographer)
Ernest Brown (photographer)
Description
Entitled: "ST. Albert Convent 1898". A marching band, front row seated and back row standing, poses outside gates of convent. Non-indigenous and indigenous boys. Youville de St. Albert is written on the drum.
The Queen's People: Ethnography or Appropriation?
Alternate Title
Review Essays: The Queen's People: Ethnography or Appropriation?
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Wendy Wickwire
Michael M'Gonigle
Native Studies Review , vol. 7, no. 2, 1991, pp. 97-113
Description
Book review of: The Queen's People, A Study of Hegemony, Coercion, and Accommodation Among the Okanagan of Canadaby Peter Carstens.
Quinze Ans sous le Cercle Polaire -- Mackenzie, Anderson, Youkon. - 1889.
E-Books
Author/Creator
Emile Petitot
Description
This book describes Petitot's explorations of the Mackenzie and Anderson Rivers and the western branch of the Yukon River. It also provides an account of Petitot's travels to the various forts such as Fort MacPerson and his encounters with protestant missionaries who tried to dissuade him from preaching in their territory.
Historical note:
Re-Visions: An Early Version of The Surrounded
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Birgit Hans
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 4, no. 2/3, Series 2, Summer/Fall, 1992, pp. 181-195
Description
Provides a brief biography of Darcy McNickle and discusses the manuscript and published version of The Surrounded.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
Reading Beyond the Missionaries, Dissecting Responses
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jennifer S. H. Brown
Ethnohistory, vol. 43, no. 4, Native American Womens Responses to Christianity, Autumn, 1996, pp. 713-719
Description
Looks at the insights into Native American women's response to missions brought forward in the articles in this issue of Ethnohistory
Reality, History, and Hands-On Ethnography: The Journals of George Augustus Robinson at Port Phillip 1839-1852
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Niel Gunson
Aboriginal History , vol. 26, 2002, pp. [224]-237
Description
Review article of: The Journals of George Augustus Robinson, Chief Protector, Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate edited by Ian D. Clark, 6 volumes.
[Recensions / Book Reviews]
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Louis-Jacques Dorais
Études Inuit Studies, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Tchoukotka / Chukotka, 2007, pp. 382-383
Description
Reviews of Nuummi Noorliit 1733-2003 / Ny Herrnhut i Nuuk 1733-2003 by Kathrine and Thorkild Kjaergaard.
Review in French.
Recently Discovered Gievrie 1 (South-Saami Shaman Drum)-Contexts, Meanings and Narratives
Alternate Title
Recently Discovered Gievrie 1 (South-Sami Shaman Drum)-Contexts, Meanings and Narratives
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Birgitta Berglund
Acta Borealia, vol. 22, no. 2, December 2005, pp. 128-152
Description
Discusses the discovery, use, and role of South-Saami shaman drums found in Norway.
Reclaiming Māori Education
Alternate Title
Decolonisation in Aotearoa: Education, Research and Practice
Reclaiming Maori Education
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Ranginui Walker
Description
Discusses how the educational system imposed by the British served to create social injustice.
Chapter one from Decolonisation in Aotearoa: Education, Research and Practice edited by Jessica Hutchings and Jenny Lee-Morgan.
Reconciliation with Residential School Survivors: A Progress Report
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Jim R. Miller
vol. 7
Description
Brief discussion of how schools functioned, abuses that took place, churches and government's response to law suits, settlement agreements and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Chapter eight from A History of Treaties and Policies, which is vol. 7 in the Aboriginal Policy Research series. Originally presented at the third annual Aboriginal Policy Research Conference, 2009.
Records of the Moravians Among The Cherokees
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
David Steven Cohen
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 1, Winter, 2012, pp. 100-102
Description
Book review of: Records of the Moravians Among The Cherokees. vol. 1. Early Contact and the Establishment of the First Mission, 1752-1802. vol. 2. Beginnings of the Mission and Establishment of the School, 1802-1805 edited by C. Daniel Crews and Richard W. Starbuck.
The Red River Indian Mission School and John West's "Little Charges", 1820-1833
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Winona Stevenson
Native Studies Review, vol. 4, no. 1 & 2, 1988, pp. 129-165
Description
Paper presents 3 objectives: to determine factors which encouraged the Hudson Bay Company and Church Missionary Society to offer education and Christian instruction to Indian children; to look at students experiences, acquisition and treatment; to assess changing priorities and focuses of educational programs in Rupertsland.
The Relationship of the Catholic Clergy to Métis Society in the Canadian North-West, 1845-1885: With Particular Reference to the South Saskatchewan District
Alternate Title
Manuscript Report (Parks Canada) ; no. 376
E-Books
Author/Creator
J. Brian Dawson
Description
Discusses five important missions: - Lac Ste-Anne, St-Albert, St-Laurent de Grandin, St-Antoine de Padoue (at Batoche) and St-Jean-Baptiste (at Ile à la Crosse).
Rendering Economies: Native American Labor and Secondary Animal Products in the Eighteenth-Century Pimería Alta
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman
American Antiquity, vol. 76, no. 1, January 2011, pp. 3-23
Description
Looks at zooarchaeological remains from two missions that demonstrate the contribution made to support colonial economic expansion.
Report of a Mission to the Ottahwahs and Ojibwas on Lake Huron
Alternate Title
Mission to the Heathen ; no. 6
Report of a Mission to the Ottawas and Ojibwas on Lake Huron
E-Books
Author/Creator
F. O'Meara
Description
Outlines O'Meara's report from his Government Indian Mission at Manitoulin Island following his appointment by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in 1839 as Missionary to the Indians at Sault St. Marie.
The Report of the Aborigines' Search Committee of the Meeting for Sufferings, Read at the Yearly Meeting 1840: with the Address to Lord John Russell on his Becoming Secretary for the Colonies; that to Friends Settling in New Colonies, and Some Particulars Calculated to Give Information and Promote Interest Respecting the Present State of Aboriginal Tribes
E-Books
Author/Creator
Society of Friends (Quakers)
Meeting for Sufferings
Aborigines Committee
Description
Discussion of the activities of the "Meeting for Sufferings" organization, as originally issued in the series: Tracts Relative to the Aborigines ; no. 5.
The Report of the Committee on the Micmac Mission from Nov. 1849 to Oct. 1950
Alternate Title
The Report of the Committee on the Mi'kmaq Mission from Nov. 1849 to Oct. 1950
The Report of the Committee on the Mikmak Mission from Nov. 1849 to Oct. 1950
E-Books
Author/Creator
Micmac Missionary Society
Description
Report of the Micmac Missionary Society, including the organizations constitution that states its main objective as the evangelization and civilization of First Nations people.