Sacred Feathers : : The Reverend Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby) and the Mississauga Indians, Second Edition / / Donald B. Smith.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | Second Edition |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (408 p.) :; 30 b&w illustrations |
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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