Author: Chad M. Waucaush
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conversion
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
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.
Becoming Christian, Remaining Ojibwe
Author: Chad M. Waucaush
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conversion
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conversion
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
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.
The Missionary, the Catechist and the Hunter
Author: Christina Petterson
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004273166
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Missionary, the Catechist and the Hunter examines the role of Protestantism in the Danish colonization of Greenland and shows how the process of colonization entails a process of subjectification where the identity of indigenous population is transformed. The figure of the hunter, commonly regarded as quintessential Inuit figure is traced back to the efforts of the Greenlandic intelligentsia to distance themselves from the hunting lifestyle by producing an abstract hunter identity in Greenlandic literature.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004273166
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Missionary, the Catechist and the Hunter examines the role of Protestantism in the Danish colonization of Greenland and shows how the process of colonization entails a process of subjectification where the identity of indigenous population is transformed. The figure of the hunter, commonly regarded as quintessential Inuit figure is traced back to the efforts of the Greenlandic intelligentsia to distance themselves from the hunting lifestyle by producing an abstract hunter identity in Greenlandic literature.
Mississauga Portraits
Author: Donald B. Smith
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442666692
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
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 the First Nations, as they lost much of their autonomy, and almost all of their traditional territory. Donald B. Smith’s Mississauga Portraits recreates the lives of eight Ojibwe who lived during this period – all of whom are historically important and interesting figures, and seven of whom have never before received full biographical treatment. Each portrait is based on research drawn from an extensive collection of writings and recorded speeches by southern Ontario Ojibwe themselves, along with secondary sources. These documents – uncovered over the 40 years that Smith has spent researching and writing about the Ojibwe – represent the richest source of personal First Nations writing in Canada from the mid-nineteenth century. Mississauga Portraits is a sequel to Smith’s immensely popular Sacred Feathers, which provided a detailed biography of Mississauga chief and Methodist minister Peter Jones (1802–1856). The first chapter in Mississauga Portraits on Jones tightly links the two books, which together give readers a vivid composite picture of life in mid-nineteenth-century Aboriginal Canada.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442666692
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
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 the First Nations, as they lost much of their autonomy, and almost all of their traditional territory. Donald B. Smith’s Mississauga Portraits recreates the lives of eight Ojibwe who lived during this period – all of whom are historically important and interesting figures, and seven of whom have never before received full biographical treatment. Each portrait is based on research drawn from an extensive collection of writings and recorded speeches by southern Ontario Ojibwe themselves, along with secondary sources. These documents – uncovered over the 40 years that Smith has spent researching and writing about the Ojibwe – represent the richest source of personal First Nations writing in Canada from the mid-nineteenth century. Mississauga Portraits is a sequel to Smith’s immensely popular Sacred Feathers, which provided a detailed biography of Mississauga chief and Methodist minister Peter Jones (1802–1856). The first chapter in Mississauga Portraits on Jones tightly links the two books, which together give readers a vivid composite picture of life in mid-nineteenth-century Aboriginal Canada.
Michigan's Company K
Author: Michelle K Cassidy
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 162895504X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
As much as the Civil War was a battle over the survival of the United States, for the men of Company K of the First Michigan Sharpshooters, it was also one battle in a longer struggle for the survival of Anishinaabewaki, the homelands of the Anishinaabeg—Ojibwe, Odawa, and Boodewaadamii peoples . The men who served in what was often called ‘the Indian Company’ chose to enlist in the Union army to contribute to their peoples’ ongoing struggle with the state and federal governments over status, rights, resources, and land in the Great Lakes. This meticulously researched history begins in 1763 with Pontiac’s War, a key moment in Anishinaabe history. It then explores the multiple strategies the Anishinaabeg deployed to remain in Michigan despite federal pressure to leave. Anishinaabe men claimed the rights and responsibilities associated with male citizenship—voting, owning land, and serving in the army—while actively preserving their status as ‘Indians’ and Anishinaabe peoples. Indigenous expectations of the federal government, as well as religious and social networks, shaped individuals’ decisions to join the U.S. military. The stories of Company K men also broaden our understanding of the complex experiences of Civil War soldiers. In their fight against removal, dispossession, political marginalization, and loss of resources in the Great Lakes, the Anishinaabeg participated in state and national debates over citizenship, allegiance, military service, and the government’s responsibilities to veterans and their families.
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 162895504X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
As much as the Civil War was a battle over the survival of the United States, for the men of Company K of the First Michigan Sharpshooters, it was also one battle in a longer struggle for the survival of Anishinaabewaki, the homelands of the Anishinaabeg—Ojibwe, Odawa, and Boodewaadamii peoples . The men who served in what was often called ‘the Indian Company’ chose to enlist in the Union army to contribute to their peoples’ ongoing struggle with the state and federal governments over status, rights, resources, and land in the Great Lakes. This meticulously researched history begins in 1763 with Pontiac’s War, a key moment in Anishinaabe history. It then explores the multiple strategies the Anishinaabeg deployed to remain in Michigan despite federal pressure to leave. Anishinaabe men claimed the rights and responsibilities associated with male citizenship—voting, owning land, and serving in the army—while actively preserving their status as ‘Indians’ and Anishinaabe peoples. Indigenous expectations of the federal government, as well as religious and social networks, shaped individuals’ decisions to join the U.S. military. The stories of Company K men also broaden our understanding of the complex experiences of Civil War soldiers. In their fight against removal, dispossession, political marginalization, and loss of resources in the Great Lakes, the Anishinaabeg participated in state and national debates over citizenship, allegiance, military service, and the government’s responsibilities to veterans and their families.
The Ojibwe Journals of Edmund F. Ely, 1833-1849
Author: Edmund F. Ely
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803271581
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
Twenty-four-year-old Edmund F. Ely, a divinity student from Albany, New York, gave up his preparation for the ministry in 1833 to become a missionary and teacher among the Ojibwe of Lake Superior. During the next sixteen years, Ely lived, taught, and preached among the Ojibwe, keeping a journal of his day-to-day experiences as well as recording ethnographic information about the Ojibwe. From recording his frustrations over the Ojibwe's rejection of Christianity to describing hunting and fishing techniques he learned from his Ojibwe neighbors, Ely’s unique and rich record provides unprecedented insight into early nineteenth-century Ojibwe life and Ojibwe-missionary relations. Theresa M. Schenck draws on a broad array of secondary sources to contextualize Ely’s journals for historians, anthropologists, linguists, literary scholars, and the Ojibwe themselves, highlighting the journals’ relevance and importance for understanding the Ojibwe of this era.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803271581
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
Twenty-four-year-old Edmund F. Ely, a divinity student from Albany, New York, gave up his preparation for the ministry in 1833 to become a missionary and teacher among the Ojibwe of Lake Superior. During the next sixteen years, Ely lived, taught, and preached among the Ojibwe, keeping a journal of his day-to-day experiences as well as recording ethnographic information about the Ojibwe. From recording his frustrations over the Ojibwe's rejection of Christianity to describing hunting and fishing techniques he learned from his Ojibwe neighbors, Ely’s unique and rich record provides unprecedented insight into early nineteenth-century Ojibwe life and Ojibwe-missionary relations. Theresa M. Schenck draws on a broad array of secondary sources to contextualize Ely’s journals for historians, anthropologists, linguists, literary scholars, and the Ojibwe themselves, highlighting the journals’ relevance and importance for understanding the Ojibwe of this era.
Ojibwe Singers
Author: Michael David McNally
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873516419
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
In the early nineteenth century, Protestant missionaries promoted the translation of evangelical hymns into the Ojibwe language, regarding this music not only as a shared form of worship but also as a tool for rooting out native cultural identity. But for many Minnesota Ojibwe today, the hymns emerged from this history of material and cultural dispossession to become emblematic of their identity as a distinct native people. Author Michael McNally uses hymn singing as a lens to view culture in motion--to consider the broader cultural processes through which Native American peoples have creatively drawn on the resources of ritual to make room for survival, integrity, and a cultural identity within the confines of colonialism.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873516419
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
In the early nineteenth century, Protestant missionaries promoted the translation of evangelical hymns into the Ojibwe language, regarding this music not only as a shared form of worship but also as a tool for rooting out native cultural identity. But for many Minnesota Ojibwe today, the hymns emerged from this history of material and cultural dispossession to become emblematic of their identity as a distinct native people. Author Michael McNally uses hymn singing as a lens to view culture in motion--to consider the broader cultural processes through which Native American peoples have creatively drawn on the resources of ritual to make room for survival, integrity, and a cultural identity within the confines of colonialism.
Gospel of Luke and Ephesians
Author: Terry M. Wildman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984770656
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
The first printing of the First Nations Version: New Testament. A new translation in English, by First Nations People for First Nations People.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984770656
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
The first printing of the First Nations Version: New Testament. A new translation in English, by First Nations People for First Nations People.
Dossier
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eskimos
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eskimos
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Writing Indian Nations
Author: Maureen Konkle
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807875902
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
In the early years of the republic, the United States government negotiated with Indian nations because it could not afford protracted wars politically, militarily, or economically. Maureen Konkle argues that by depending on treaties, which rest on the equal standing of all signatories, Europeans in North America institutionalized a paradox: the very documents through which they sought to dispossess Native peoples in fact conceded Native autonomy. As the United States used coerced treaties to remove Native peoples from their lands, a group of Cherokee, Pequot, Ojibwe, Tuscarora, and Seneca writers spoke out. With history, polemic, and personal narrative these writers countered widespread misrepresentations about Native peoples' supposedly primitive nature, their inherent inability to form governments, and their impending disappearance. Furthermore, they contended that arguments about racial difference merely justified oppression and dispossession; deriding these arguments as willful attempts to evade the true meanings and implications of the treaties, the writers insisted on recognition of Native peoples' political autonomy and human equality. Konkle demonstrates that these struggles over the meaning of U.S.-Native treaties in the early nineteenth century led to the emergence of the first substantial body of Native writing in English and, as she shows, the effects of the struggle over the political status of Native peoples remain embedded in contemporary scholarship.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807875902
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
In the early years of the republic, the United States government negotiated with Indian nations because it could not afford protracted wars politically, militarily, or economically. Maureen Konkle argues that by depending on treaties, which rest on the equal standing of all signatories, Europeans in North America institutionalized a paradox: the very documents through which they sought to dispossess Native peoples in fact conceded Native autonomy. As the United States used coerced treaties to remove Native peoples from their lands, a group of Cherokee, Pequot, Ojibwe, Tuscarora, and Seneca writers spoke out. With history, polemic, and personal narrative these writers countered widespread misrepresentations about Native peoples' supposedly primitive nature, their inherent inability to form governments, and their impending disappearance. Furthermore, they contended that arguments about racial difference merely justified oppression and dispossession; deriding these arguments as willful attempts to evade the true meanings and implications of the treaties, the writers insisted on recognition of Native peoples' political autonomy and human equality. Konkle demonstrates that these struggles over the meaning of U.S.-Native treaties in the early nineteenth century led to the emergence of the first substantial body of Native writing in English and, as she shows, the effects of the struggle over the political status of Native peoples remain embedded in contemporary scholarship.
Picturing Worlds
Author: David Stirrup
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628953888
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
Paying attention to the uses that Anishinaabe authors make of visual images and marks made on surfaces such as rock, bark, paper, and canvas, David Stirrup argues that such marks—whether ancient pictographs or contemporary paintings—intervene in artificial divisions like that separating precolonial/oral from postcontact/alphabetically literate societies. Examining the ways that writers including George Copway, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Gordon Henry, Louise Erdrich, Gerald Vizenor, and others deploy the visual establishes frameworks for continuity, resistance, and sovereignty in that space where conventional narratives of settlement read rupture. This book is a significant contribution to studies of the ways traditional forms of inscription support and amplify the oral tradition and in turn how both the method and aesthetic of inscription contribute to contemporary literary aesthetics and the politics of representation.
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628953888
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
Paying attention to the uses that Anishinaabe authors make of visual images and marks made on surfaces such as rock, bark, paper, and canvas, David Stirrup argues that such marks—whether ancient pictographs or contemporary paintings—intervene in artificial divisions like that separating precolonial/oral from postcontact/alphabetically literate societies. Examining the ways that writers including George Copway, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Gordon Henry, Louise Erdrich, Gerald Vizenor, and others deploy the visual establishes frameworks for continuity, resistance, and sovereignty in that space where conventional narratives of settlement read rupture. This book is a significant contribution to studies of the ways traditional forms of inscription support and amplify the oral tradition and in turn how both the method and aesthetic of inscription contribute to contemporary literary aesthetics and the politics of representation.