Sacred feathers : the Reverend Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby) and the Mississauga Indians

Type

Book

Authors

Donald B. Smith ( Smith, Donald B. )

ISBN 10

0802057551

ISBN 13

9780802057556

Tags

Peter Jones -- 1802-1856, Missisauga -- Biography, Missisauga -- History, Methodists -- Ontario -- Biography, Indigenous peoples -- Ontario -- History, Indigenous peoples -- Missions -- Ontario -- History -- 19th century, Indigenous peoples -- Missions, Missions, Methodists, Missisauga, Ontario

Abstract

"A groundbreaking book, Sacred Feathers was one of the first biographies of a Canadian Aboriginal to be based on his own writings - drawing on Jones's letters, diaries, sermons, and his history of the Ojibwas - and the first modern account of the Mississauga Indians."--WorldCat.org.

Description

xix, 372 pages ; 22 cm.

Biblio Notes

Contents:
An Indian Boyhood --
The Mississauga Indians --
Sacred Feathers Becomes Peter Jones --
Born Again --
The Mississaugas' Cultural Revolution --
"Go Ye into All the World" --
Opposition --
Fund-Raising --
Eliza --
"All Out of Tune" --
Land and Education --
From Edinburgh to Echo Villa --
The Final Years --
Peter Jones's Legacy --
Appendix I: Peter Jones on the Ojibwas' and Europeans 7 "Creeds and Practice" --
Appendix 2: Eliza Field Jones on the Character of Her Late Husband --
Appendix 3: Mississauga Place-Names.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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