Missions & Missionaries

Report includes appendices relating to reserves, schedule of leases, statutes of British Columbia relating to Aboriginals and missions of British Columbia.

Topics include: centralized administration, compensation for land surrendered to settlers, surveying reserve land, provision of livestock and agricultural implements and instruction in European faming methods, and using education as method of assimilation.

Excerpts from the full report of the same name. Brief comments on each of the First Nations residing in Canada East and Canada West. Focuses on education and the establishment of schools.

Looks at how early missionaries influenced Aboriginal children through the education and guidance of the Roman Catholic church.

"Published by Command".

Explores historical and contemporary issues at Holy Angels and St. Joseph's Schools.

Short list of significant dates in the residential school crisis.

Focusing on the history of residential schools in Canada. Asserts the government and churches attempted to eliminate aboriginal culture.

Agreement between Government of Canada, General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada, Missionary Society of the Anglican Church of Canada and the Anglican Church of Canada Resolution Corporation dealing with Indian Residential School. Initialled as an agreement-in-principle November 20, 2002.

A story of resiliency by a residential school survivor involving crosses disappearing then reappearing several decades later.

Religion Thesis (Ph.D.)--Emory University, 2002.

Chronicles the varied levels of acceptance of the Catholic Church and the Durieu system of village organization by the Shuswap communities.

Examines detailed reports on schools and pupils which were sent headquarters in New York. Focuses on four groups: Choctaws, Creeks, Omahas and the Nez Perces.

Discusses how four generations of an American Indian family have dealt with historical trauma.

Book reviews of seven books: American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures by Joanne Brooks. Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians in Colonial America by Kristina Bross. The Eliot Tracts: With Letters from John Eliot to Thomas Thorowgood and Richard Baxter Edited by Michael Clark. Les Sauvages Americains: Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature by Gordon Sayre. The Poor Indians: British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility by Laura M.

Image of an elderly Rev. Father J. Moulin in robes with a cross around his neck; outdoor scene.

Looks at the four Methodist missionaries, who had been hired by the Hudson Bay Company to educate the Aboriginal people in Rupert's Land. Focuses on James Evans, his relationship with the Hudson Bay, circumstances surrounding his recall and charges against him by three Rossville Aboriginal women.

Discusses the Methodist minister, his close relationship with the Stoney Nakoda and their participation in Banff Indian Days, and describes the Duke's adoption ceremony.

A studio portrait of Rev. John Richard Matheson, seated.

Historical note:

Rev. John Richard Matheson was the husband of Dr. Elizabeth (Scott) Matheson. They were married in 1891, and she went with him to the Anglican mission on a reserve at Onion Lake, 200 miles Northwest of Saskatoon. As well as a missionary, he served as builder, rancher and trader to finance their work. After she completed medical studies at his urging, he built her a small mission hospital at Onion Lake, and the couple ran a mission school there.

A portrait of Reverend R. Hunt from the "Report on Indian Missions, 1909." Reverend Hunt was an Anglican clergyman at Stanley Mission, SK in the mid-nineteenth century.

Historical note:

Reverend Hunt oversaw the construction of Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Stanley Mission between 1854 and 1860, today the oldest standing building in the province. See also S-B6546.

A copy of a photograph. On back: "The Rt. Rev. - Stringer Bishop & Mrs Stringer - the well-remembered 'Sadie' Stringer - many children carry her name. Photo taken at Herschel Island c 1911."

Discusses the sociological and psychological factors that drove Ernest Gribble to become the Anglican Church's longest serving missionary to the Aboriginal people. Chapter from Lectures on North Queensland History, no.5 edited by B. J. Dalton.

On back: "The Rev. Fr. Léonce De Heutrevant, OMI. Preist-Missionary Notre Dame de Lourdes Mission - Paulatuk, NWT. 83 yrs old now."

Despite missionary influence, the core beliefs of the James Bay Cree were resistant to change.

Black and white photograph of Reverend H. Ellis, the principal of the Anglican Indian industrial school at Onion Lake.

Brief account of the time John Maclean worked among and wrote about the Canadian Blackfoot in the 1880's.

Book review of: Aboriginal People and Other Canadians edited by Martin Thornton, Roy Todd, and David N. Collins.

Book reviews of: The Alabama-Coushatta Indians by Jonathan B. Hook. American Indian Sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme Court: The Masking of Justice by David E. Wilkins. The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich. Apocalypse of Chiokoyhikoy: Chief of the Iroquois by Robert Griffin and Donald A. Grinde. Dissonant Worlds, Roger Vandersteene Among the Cree by Earle H. Waugh. Early Native American Writing edited by Helen Jaskoski. Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Inc. by Mick Gidley. A Grammar of Bella Coola by Philip W.

Book reviews of: 2000 Years of Mayan Literature by Dennis Tedlock. Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject by Kirsten Pai Buick. Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples by Mark Dowie. Delaware Tribe in a Cherokee Nation by Brice Obermeyer. Demons, Saints, & Patriots: Catholic Visions of Indian America through The Indian Sentinel (1902–1962) by Mark Clatterbuck.

Book reviews of: Beyond the Lodge of the Sun: Inner Mysteries of the Native American Way by Chokecherry Gall Eagle. Chippewa Families: A Social Study of White Earth Reservation, 1938 by. M. Inez Hilger. David Zeisberger: A Life Among the Indians by Earl P.

Book reviews of: American Indians and National Parks by Robert H. Keller and Michael F. Turek. Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archeology of the Unknown Past edited by Richard F.

Book reviews of: Beyond the Reach of Time and Change: Native American Reflections on the Frank A. Rinehart Photograph Collection edited by Simon J. Ortiz. Bringing Indians to the Book by Albert Furtwangler. A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children edited by Doris Seale and Beverly Slapin. Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769–1850 by Steven W.

Book reviews of: Alaska Native Political Leadership and Higher Education: One University, Two Universes by Michael L. Jennings. Alaska’s Daughter: An Eskimo Memoir of the Early Twentieth Century by Elizabeth Bernhardt Pinson. Choctaw Tales collected and annotated by Tom Mould. De Religione: Telling the Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Story in Huron to the Iroquois edited and translated by John L. Steckley. Evil Corn by Adrian C. Louis. Have You Thought of Leonard Peltier Lately? by Harvey Arden. Indians in Unexpected Places by Philip J.

Book reviews of: The Voice in the Margin: Native American Literature and the Canon by Arnold Krupat The Good Red Road: Passages into Native America by Kenneth Lincoln, with Al Logan Slagle The Singing Spirit edited by Bernd C. Peyer The Droning Shaman by Nora Marks Dauenhauer The Witch of Goingsnake and Other Stories by Robert Conley Chainbreaker: The Revolutionary War Memoirs of Governor Blacksnake as Told to Benjamin Williams edited by Thomas S. Abler Another View [Blacksnake] edited by Thomas S.

Book review of: Drum Songs: Glimpses of Dene History by Kerry Abel.

Looks at women missionaries and missionary wives who came to the arctic with pre-conceived ideas and a lack of understanding of native culture.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1997

Book review of: The Road to the Rapids by Robert J. Coutts.

Looks at how children became servants, station hands, and labourers and were stripped of their cultural heritage.

A photograph of the Roman Catholic Residential School in Onion Lake, North West Territories. The Aboriginal girls stand on the left with four nuns, the boys on the right with one priest. The children all wear matching uniforms.

A panorama photograph of the Roman Catholic Mission in Onion Lake North West Territories circa 1890. The Church, residential school and outbuildings are visible. A rail fence surrounds the property.