Mississauga Portraits : : Ojibwe Voices from Nineteenth-Century Canada / / Donald B. Smith.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Smith, Donald B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (496 p.) :; 53 b&w illustrations

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 Firs...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Maps and Illustrations
• Preface
• 1 Peter Jones, or Kahkewaquonaby (1802– 1856), and Canada West, Spring 1856
• 2 Credit Head Chief: Joseph Sawyer, or Nawahjegezhegwabe (ca. 1784– 1863)
• 3 Upright Woman: Catharine Sutton, or Nahnebahnwequay, “Nahnee” (1824–1865)
• 4 The Outsider: Peter Jacobs, or Pahtahsega (ca. 1810–1890)
• 5 International Entrepreneur: Maungwudaus, or George Henry (ca. 1805–after 1877)
• 6 Literary Celebrity: George Copway, or Kahgegagahbowh (1818–1869)
• 7 Warrior Preacher: John Sunday, or Shawundais (ca. 1795–1875)
• 8 A Missionary Family: Henry Steinhauer, or Shahwahnegezhik (ca. 1817–1884), and Sons, Egerton Ryerson Steinhauer (1858–1932) and Robert Steinhauer (1861–1941)
• Conclusion
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index