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Mississauga portraits : Ojibwe voices from nineteenth-century Canada /

The word "Mississauga" is the name British Canadian settlers used for the Ojibwe on the north of Lake Ontario, now the most urbanized region in what is now Canada. The Ojibwe of this area in the early and mid-nineteenth century lived through a time of considerable threat to the survival of...

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Main Author: Smith, Donald B., (Author)
Contributors: Smith, Donald B.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2013]
Subjects and Genres:
1800-1899
Missisauga Indians > Biography.
Missisauga Indians > History > 19th century.
Methodists > Ontario > Biography.
Methodists > Ontario > History > 19th century.
Missisauga (Indiens) > Biographies.
Missisauga (Indiens) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Méthodistes > Ontario > Biographies.
Méthodistes > Ontario > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Methodists.
Missisauga Indians.
Missisauga
Methodismus
Ontario.
Ontario
Biographies.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Peter Jones, or Kahkewaquonaby (1802-1856), and Canada West, spring 1856
  • Credit head chief : Joseph Sawyer, or Nawahjegezhegwabe (The Sloping Sky) (ca. 1784-1863)
  • Upright Woman : Catharine Sutton, or Nahnebahnwequay, "Nahnee" (1824-1865)
  • The outsider : Peter Jacobs, or Pahtahsega (ca. 1810-1890)
  • International entrepreneur : Maungwudaus, or George Henry (ca. 1805-after 1877)
  • Literary celebrity : George Copway, or Kahgegagahbowh (1818-1869)
  • Warrior preacher : John Sunday, or Shawundais (ca. 1795-1875)
  • A missionary family : Henry Steinhauer, or Shahwahnegezhik (ca. 1817-1884), and sons, Egerton Ryerson Steinhauer (1858-1932) and Robert Steinhauer (1861-1941)
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue.

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