Sacred Feathers : : The Reverend Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby) and the Mississauga Indians, Second Edition / / 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
• Edition: Second Edition
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.) :; 30 b&w illustrations

Much of the ground on which Canada’s largest metropolitan centre now stands was purchased by the British from the Mississauga Indians for a payment that in the end amounted to ten shillings. Sacred Feathers (1802–1856), or Peter Jones, as he became known in English, grew up hearing countless stories of the treachery in those negotiations, early lessons in the need for Indian vigilance in preserving their land and their rights. Donald B. Smith’s biography of this remarkable Ojibwa leader shows how well those early lessons were learned and how Jones used them to advance the welfare of his people.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. As summarized by M.T. Kelly in Saturday Night when the book was first published in 1988, “This biography achieves something remarkable. Peter Jones emerges from its pages alive. We don’t merely understand him by the book’s end: we know him.”

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps and Illustrations -- Introduction to the Second Edition -- Preface -- 1 An Indian Boyhood -- 2 The Mississauga Indians -- 3 Sacred Feathers Becomes Peter Jones -- 4 Born Again -- 5 The Mississaugas' Cultural Revolution -- 6 "Go Ye into All the World" -- 7 Opposition -- 8 Fund-Raising -- 9 Eliza -- 10 "All Out of Tune" -- 11 Land and Education -- 12 From Edinburgh to Echo Villa -- 13 The Final Years -- 14 Peter Jones's Legacy -- Appendix I: Peter Jones on the Ojibwas' and Europeans "Creeds and Practice" -- Appendix 2: Eliza Field Jones on the Character of Her Late Husband -- Appendix 3: Mississauga Place-Names -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index