Missions & Missionaries

Looks at east Greenlanders who settled in the Kap Farvel area in 1887 and their encounter with the local people and the Moravian Brethren mission.

Describes ethnic differences between the two groups and the evolution of some similar cultural elements.

Uses a review of the film Rabbit Proof Fenceas a starting point for a discussion of the residential school system in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and India.

Presents information on paintings of Blackfoot religious beliefs.

Justice Donald Brenner (BCSC) found the United Church of Canada legally responsible for the abuse suffered by the students at the Port Alberni Indian Residential School.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.1.

History Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 2007.

Website includes digitized archival images and documents of United Church of Canada missions to First Nations communities in British Columbia during the period of 1850 to 1975.

Law Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Sussex, 2012.

Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--University of New Brunswick, 1997.

Book review of: Victims of Benevolence by Elizabeth Furniss.

Book reviews of two books: Victims of Benevolence by Elizabeth Furniss. The Oblate Assault on Canada's Northwest by Robert Choquette.

Looks at settler colonialism and the 1850 Act for the Government and Protections of Indians paving the way for victimization and criminalization of American Native women.

Comments on Karl Mennigner and Gregory Boer's reasoning theses to explain the cause for Euro-Canadian problems in reconciling with Indigenous people.

This file contains copies of records from the General Synod Archives, Anglican Church of Canada, pertaining to St. Barnabas' Mission on the Onion Lake Indian Reserve, operated by the Church Missionary Society until l921. Most of the material consists of letters by the missionary to the Society in England and extracts from the missionary's journals, 1876-1895. Also included is a typed chronology of the mission to 1983 and a typed copy of an account of the Frog Lake Massacre told by Mr. J.S. Buller in l969.

Book review of: Warriors of the North Pacific by Charles Lillard. Scroll down to page 52 to read review.

First page describes ease of learning this system: "a hundred times easier than the old writing" with "Two million people...throughout the world already practising this system of phonography." The Phonetic Alphabet(front cover, inset).

Looks at responses to Christian theological ideas of sin, guilt, heaven, hell, and baptism from an Aboriginal point of view.

Looks at local control and self-determination in health care for the Siksika who built a16 bed hospital in 1924.

Describes the policy of student boarding negotiated between the Dakota peoples and Protestant missionaries in Minnesota.

Explores why many older Aboriginals have positive memories of missions by looking at letters written to authorities during the 1960s.

Book review of: Western Challenge by Peter Bush.

Author urges expansion of missionary activities, including schools, in the interest of "civilizing" and assimilating the "inferior race". Reflects the attitudes and policies of the time.

Book review of: White Christ, Black Cross by Noel Loos. Review located by scrolling to page 281.

Focuses on the motives for colonization.

Book review of: The White Man's Gonna Getcha by Toby Morantz.

Book review of: The White Man's Gonna Getcha: The Colonial Challenges to the Crees in Quebec by Toby Morantz. Scroll to page 442 to read review.

Creative Writing and Cultural Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Queensland University of Technology, 2006.

Book review of: Whitefella Comin' by David S. Trigger. Review located by scrolling to page 149.

Suggests stories collected by missionaries about the Mi'kmaq should be repatriated back to the communities to decide how and if they should be published.

Authors looks at her beliefs and discusses them with the Native preacher.

Title and document are in Kitksan (Gitksan), from the New Testiment (Bible) chapter,Luke, translated by A. E. Price, a 19th century Anglican missionary on the Skeena River.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill Universtiy, [1969].

Selected excerpts from bound published volume of narrative which covers such topics as the early settlement and development of the western regions of what is now Canada. Among other subjects, Metis land grants and scrip, fur traders, buffalo hunting and methods of transportation used by Natives, and the Northwest Resistance are covered.

History (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2003.

Book reviews of: The Wollaston Journals edited by Helen Walker Mann. Refuge on the Roper by Murray Seiffert. Footprints by Simon Flagg and Sebastian Gurciullo. Reviews located by scrolling to page 284.

Book review of: Women and the White Man's God by Myra Rutherdale.

Book review of: Women and the White Man's God by Myra Rutherdale.

Book review of: The Women in the Trees by Gerry William. To access this review, scroll to page 149.

Eight residents reflect on their lives in the community. Information was gathered through a series of conversational interviews.

Examines and compares Native American religions to those of the rest of the world.