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Book Missionary Work Among the Ojebway Indians

Download or read book Missionary Work Among the Ojebway Indians written by Edward Francis Wilson and published by London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ; New York : E. & J.B. Young. This book was released on 1886 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Becoming Christian  Remaining Ojibwe

Download or read book Becoming Christian Remaining Ojibwe written by Chad M. Waucaush and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the mid-nineteenth century there developed a trans-regional, multi-ethnic alliance of Native ministers and clergy throughout the Great Lakes. Their evangelistic work reached from Mississauga, Ontario to the White Earth reservation in Minnesota. Many of these Native ministers and missionaries delivered their sermons in the Algonquin language to a kaleidoscopic assembly of Ojibwe, Ottawa, Potawatomi, Canadian, American, French and Métis adherents. Some of the Indian preachers attained international acclaim as speakers, writers, and governmental diplomats. Their ministerial endeavors which included hymn writing and missionary work were vital in establishing a unique indigenous Protestant Christianity amongst Indian communities throughout the Great Lakes. As a result of their labor, by the mid-to-late nineteenth century there emerged several Ojibwe missions and churches comprised of various denominations throughout the Great Lakes region. It is the aim of this work to chart the emergence of the Ojibwe missions in this area and the remarkable ministerial network of indigenous clergy and missionaries which emerged from original missions and established additional mission sites. Given that many of the Christian Ojibwe in Upper Canada and western Great Lakes were Methodists, the work of Methodist Ojibwe missionaries and the development of Methodist Indian missions will be emphasized. Ojibwe ministers and missionaries employed a variety of cultural techniques to Christianize their communities in the Great Lakes. Christian Indian leaders were uniquely situated to address the oppositional arguments which were contextualized within indigenous cultural, societal, and religious frameworks. In doing so, they offered a gospel that was culturally palatable for nineteenth century Ojibwe communities. Christianity was used by the Christian Ojibwe to address the manifold social changes thrust upon their communities due to colonialism and eventually, western industrial expansion. Native missionaries utilized Christianity as a rehabilitative tool to counter the social breakdown which was hastened by contact with non-Indian neighbors. Indigenous Christian leaders proposed theological as well as practical guidance to members of their tribal community as they struggled to maintain their tribal autonomy. However, this guidance increasingly revolved around adopting cultural constructs from white society. This acculturation process sometimes contributed to the social breakdown which Native missionaries were trying to address. Yet, many Christian Ojibwe adapted Christian expression to indigenous cultural practices, thus producing a unique brand of Protestant Christianity which offered a sense of stability, structure, and hope in the face of overwhelming odds. Hopefully this paper will shed some light on that process.

Book Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada  Volume One  Summary

Download or read book Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Volume One Summary written by The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the Final Report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal youth and the legacy of these schools. This report, the summary volume, includes the history of residential schools, the legacy of that school system, and the full text of the Commission's 94 recommendations for action to address that legacy. This report lays bare a part of Canada's history that until recently was little-known to most non-Aboriginal Canadians. The Commission discusses the logic of the colonization of Canada's territories, and why and how policy and practice developed to end the existence of distinct societies of Aboriginal peoples. Using brief excerpts from the powerful testimony heard from Survivors, this report documents the residential school system which forced children into institutions where they were forbidden to speak their language, required to discard their clothing in favour of institutional wear, given inadequate food, housed in inferior and fire-prone buildings, required to work when they should have been studying, and subjected to emotional, psychological and often physical abuse. In this setting, cruel punishments were all too common, as was sexual abuse. More than 30,000 Survivors have been compensated financially by the Government of Canada for their experiences in residential schools, but the legacy of this experience is ongoing today. This report explains the links to high rates of Aboriginal children being taken from their families, abuse of drugs and alcohol, and high rates of suicide. The report documents the drastic decline in the presence of Aboriginal languages, even as Survivors and others work to maintain their distinctive cultures, traditions, and governance. The report offers 94 calls to action on the part of governments, churches, public institutions and non-Aboriginal Canadians as a path to meaningful reconciliation of Canada today with Aboriginal citizens. Even though the historical experience of residential schools constituted an act of cultural genocide by Canadian government authorities, the United Nation's declaration of the rights of aboriginal peoples and the specific recommendations of the Commission offer a path to move from apology for these events to true reconciliation that can be embraced by all Canadians.

Book Noble  Wretched   Redeemable

Download or read book Noble Wretched Redeemable written by C. L. Higham and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author has researched memoirs, letters, journals, diaries, reports, newspapers, newsletters, and other primary sources to piece together the missionary story in Canada and the United States."--BOOK JACKET.

Book The Role of Conjuring in Saulteaux Society

Download or read book The Role of Conjuring in Saulteaux Society written by A. Irving Hallowell and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Book The Demon of the Continent

Download or read book The Demon of the Continent written by Joshua David Bellin and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the study and teaching of Native American oral and written art have flourished. During the same period, there has been a growing recognition among historians, anthropologists, and ethnohistorians that Indians must be seen not as the voiceless, nameless, faceless Other but as people who had a powerful impact on the historical development of the United States. Literary critics, however, have continued to overlook Indians as determinants of American—rather than specifically Native American—literature. The notion that the presence of Indian peoples shaped American literature as a whole remains unexplored. In The Demon of the Continent, Joshua David Bellin probes the complex interrelationships among Native American and Euro-American cultures and literatures from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. He asserts that cultural contact is at the heart of American literature. For Bellin, previous studies of Indians in American literature have focused largely on the images Euro-American writers constructed of indigenous peoples, and have thereby only perpetuated those images. Unlike authors of those earlier studies, Bellin refuses to reduce Indians to static antagonists or fodder for a Euro-American imagination. Drawing on works such as Henry David Thoreau's Walden, William Apess' A Son of the Forest, and little known works such as colonial Indian conversion narratives, he explores the ways in which these texts reflect and shape the intercultural world from which they arose. In doing so, Bellin reaches surprising conclusions: that Walden addresses economic clashes and partnerships between Indians and whites; that William Bartram's Travels encodes competing and interpenetrating systems of Indian and white landholding; that Catherine Sedgwick's Hope Leslie enacts the antebellum drama of Indian conversion; that James Fenimore Cooper and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow struggled with Indian authors such as George Copway and David Cusick for physical, ideological, and literary control of the nation. The Demon of the Continent proves Indians to be actors in the dynamic processes in which America and its literature are inescapably embedded. Shifting the focus from textual images to the sites of material, ideological, linguistic, and aesthetic interaction between peoples, Bellin reenvisions American literature as the product of contact, conflict, accommodation, and interchange.

Book Traditional Ojibwa Religion and Its Historical Changes

Download or read book Traditional Ojibwa Religion and Its Historical Changes written by Christopher Vecsey and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1983 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes & analyzes traditional Ojibwa religion (TOR) & the changes it has undergone through the last three centuries. Emphasizes the influence of Christian missions (CM) to the Ojibwas in effecting religious changes, & examines the concomitant changes in Ojibwa culture & environment through the historical period. Contents: Review of Sources; Criteria for Determining what was TOR; Ojibwa History; CM to the Ojibwas; Ojibwa Responses to CM; The Ojibwa Person, Living & Dead; The Manitos; Nanabozho & the Creation Myth; Ojibwa Relations with the Manitos; Puberty Fasting & Visions; Disease, Health, & Medicine; Religious Leadership; Midewiwin; Diverse Religious Movements; & The Loss of TOR. Maps & charts.

Book Lines Drawn Upon the Water

    Book Details:
  • Author : Karl S. Hele
  • Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
  • Release : 2008-09-30
  • ISBN : 1554580048
  • Pages : 379 pages

Download or read book Lines Drawn Upon the Water written by Karl S. Hele and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of a conference held at University of Western Ontario, London, Ont., Feb. 11-12, 2005.

Book Boreal Forest Adaptations

Download or read book Boreal Forest Adaptations written by A. Theodore Steegman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters making up this volume are not just a collection of parts which were more or less on the same topic and happened to be available for cobbling together. Instead, they were written especially for it. We had before us from the beginning the goal of creating a synthesis of interest to students of environmental adaptation, but adaptation broadly construed, and to one of the world's difficult environments-the boreal forest. This is anthropology-but not anthropology of the old school. A word of explanation may be in order. Ecologists and those in traditional biological sci ences may find some of what follows to be familiar in format and in intellectual approach. Others of our perspectives may feel less comfortable and in fact may seem to be refugees from scholarship more of the sort pursued by historians. All that is quite true and rather nicely reflects the dualities and potential of anthropology as a discipline. We have always drawn strength from the arts as well as the sciences. We have more recently tried to identify biological templates for human behavior, and to understand the reciprocal impact of behavior on the human organism. Anthropology is a discipline, part art and part science, which is at once historical, behavioral, societal, and biological. No species has left a clearer path through time than has ours, and none has made its way through such a diversity of challenging environments. Determining how humanity has managed to do that is our goal.

Book Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography  P Z

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography P Z written by Dan L. Thrapp and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1991-06-01 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes biographical information on 4,500 individuals associated with the frontier

Book Making Relatives of Them

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  • Author : Rebecca Kugel
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2023-09-12
  • ISBN : 0806193441
  • Pages : 261 pages

Download or read book Making Relatives of Them written by Rebecca Kugel and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kinship, as an organizing principle, gives structure to communities and cultures—and it can vary as widely as the social relationships organized in its name. Making Relatives of Them examines kinship among the Great Lakes Native nations in the eventful years of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, revealing how these Indigenous peoples’ understanding of kinship, in complex relationship with concepts of gender, defined their social, political, and diplomatic interactions with one another and with Europeans and their descendants. For these Native nations—Wyandot, Shawnee, Delaware, Miami, Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi, Dakota, Menomini, and Ho-chunk—the constructs and practices of kinship, gender, and social belonging represented a daily lived reality. They also formed the metaphoric foundation for a regionally shared Native political discourse. In at least one English translation, Rebecca Kugel notes, Indigenous peoples referred to the kin-based language of politics as “the Custom of All the Nations.” Clearly defined yet endlessly elastic, the Custom of All the Nations generated a shared vocabulary of kinship that facilitated encounters among the many Indigenous political entities of the Great Lakes country, and framed their interactions with the French, the British, and later, the Americans. Both the European colonizers and Americans recognized the power-encoding symbolism of Native kinship discourse, Kugel tells us, but they completely misunderstood the significance that Native peoples accorded to gender—a misunderstanding that undermined their attempts to co-opt the Indigenous discourse of kinship and bend it to their own political objectives. A deeply researched, finely observed work by a respected historian, Making Relatives of Them offers a nuanced perspective on the social and political worlds of the Great Lakes Native peoples, and a new understanding of those worlds in relation to those of the European colonizers and their descendants.

Book The Encyclopaedia Britannica

Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book First People  First Voices

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  • Author : Penny Petrone
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 1983-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780802065629
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book First People First Voices written by Penny Petrone and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speeches, letters, diaries, journals, petitions, prayers, songs, poems, drama and stories covering Indian writing and oratory in Canada from the 1630s to the 1980s. Generally arranged chronologically, also provides the Indian view of Canadian history.

Book     Bibliography of the Algonquian Languages

Download or read book Bibliography of the Algonquian Languages written by James Constantine Pilling and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopedia Britannica

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  • Author : Hugh Chisholm
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1911
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1976 pages

Download or read book Encyclopedia Britannica written by Hugh Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Encyclopaedia Britannica  Har to Ita

Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica Har to Ita written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: