Missionary Work Among the Ojebway Indians

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Title: Missionary Work Among The Ojebway Indians
Author: Edward Francis Wilson
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MISSIONARY WORK
AMONG
THE OJEBWAY INDIANS.
BY THE
REV. EDWARD F. WILSON.

CONTENTS.
CHAP.
INTRODUCTION.
I. HOW IT CAME ABOUT THAT I WENT TO CANADA.
II. FIRST MISSIONARY EXPERIENCES.
III. OUR ARRIVAL AT SARNIA.
IV. KETTLE POINT.
V. INDIAN NAMES GIVEN.
VI. CHRISTMAS ON THE RESERVE.
VII. MISSION WORK AT SARNIA.
VIII. THE BISHOP'S VISIT.
IX. FIRST VISIT TO GARDEN RIVER.
X. BAPTISM OF PAGAN INDIANS.
XI. THE RED RIVER EXPEDITION.
XII. CHANGES IN PROSPECT.

XIII. ROUGHING IT.
XIV. CHIEF LITTLE PINE.
XV. OUR FIRST WINTER IN ALGOMA.
XVI. CHIEF BUHKWUJJENENE'S MISSION.
XVII. AN INDIAN CHIEF IN ENGLAND.
XVIII. A TRIAL OF FAITH.
XIX. LEARNING TO KNOW MY PEOPLE.
XX. A WEDDING AND A DEATH.
XXI. THE OPENING OF THE FIRST SHINGWAUK HOME.
XXII. FIRE! FIRE!
XXIII. AFTER THE FIRE.
XXIV. PROSPECTS OF RE-BUILDING.
XXV. LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE.
XXVI. A TRIP TO BATCHENWAUNING.
XXVII. THE WINTER OF 1874-5.
XXVIII. THE NEW SHINGWAUK HOME.
XXIX. RUNAWAY BOYS.
XXX. CHARLIE AND BEN.
XXXI. A TRIP UP LAKE SUPERIOR.
XXXII. COASTING AND CAMPING.
XXXIII. UP THE NEEPIGON RIVER.
XXXIV. THIRTY YEARS WAITING FOR A MISSIONARY.
XXXV. THE PAGAN BOY--NINGWINNENA.
XXXVI. BAPTIZED--BURIED.
XXXVII. THE WAWANOSH HOME.
XXXVIII. A SAD WINTER.
XXXIX. WILLIAM SAHGUCHEWAY.
XL. OUR INDIAN HOMES.
XLI. A POW-WOW AT GARDEN RIVER.
XLII. GLAD TIDINGS FROM NEEPIGON.

PREFACE.
A few words addressed by the Bishop of Algoma to the Provincial
Synod may form a suitable preface to this little book, which aspires to
no literary pretensions, but is just a simple and unvarnished narrative of
Missionary experience among the Red Indians of Lake Superior, in the
Algoma Diocese.

"The invaluable Institutions at Sault Ste. Marie still continue their
blessed work of educating and Christianizing the rising generation of
Ojebways. Founded in a spirit of faith, hope, and charity,--carrying out
a sound system of education, and in the past 'approved of God' by many
signs and tokens, the friends of these two 'Homes' may still rally round
them with unshaken confidence. Their history, like that of the Christian
Church itself, has been marked by not a few fluctuations, but their
record has been one of permanent and undoubted usefulness.
"Only a person deeply interested and directly engaged in the work, as
the Rev. E. F. Wilson is, can understand the force of the difficulties to
be encountered from the ineradicable scepticism of Indian parents as to
the disinterestedness of our intentions with regard to their children; the
tendency of the children to rebel against the necessary restraints
imposed on their liberty; the reluctance of parents to leave their
children in the 'Home' for a period sufficiently long for the formation of
permanent habits of industry, and fixed principles of right; the
constitutional unhealthiness of Indian children, terminating, as it has
here in a few cases, in death; the all but impossibility of obtaining
helpers for subordinate positions, such as teacher or servant, who
regard the question of the evangelization of the Indian from any higher
stand-point than the financial.
"Against this formidable array of obstacles Mr. Wilson has not only
struggled, but struggled successfully, till now these two Institutions,
over which he has watched with all the jealous vigilance of a mother
watching her first-born child, stand on a basis of acknowledged success,
as two centres for the diffusion of Gospel light and blessing among the
children of a people who have