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An Ethnohistorian in Rupert’s Land Unfinished Conversations
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BROWN,Jennifer S. H.

In 1670, the ancient homeland of the Cree and Ojibwe people of Hudson Bay became known to the English entrepreneurs of the Hudson’s Bay Company as Rupert’s Land, after the founder and absentee landlord, Prince Rupert. For four decades, Jennifer S. H. Brown has examined the complex relationships that developed among the newcomers and the Algonquian communities—who hosted and tolerated the …

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Mission Life in Cree-Ojibwe Country Memories of a Mother and Son
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BROWN,Jennifer S. H.YOUNG,Elizabeth BinghamYOUNG,E. Ryerson

In May of 1868, Elizabeth Bingham Young and her new husband, Egerton Ryerson Young, began a long journey from Hamilton, Ontario, to the Methodist mission of Rossville. For the next eight years, Elizabeth supported her husband’s work at two mission houses, Norway House and then Berens River. Unprepared for the difficult conditions and the “eight months long” winter, and unimpressed with …

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Jennifer S. H. Brown
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Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
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336 pages
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Mission Life in Cree-Ojibwe Country Memories of a Mother and Son
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BROWN,Jennifer S. H.YOUNG,Elizabeth BinghamYOUNG,E. Ryerson

Accompanying Elizabeth’s memoir, and offering a counterpoint to it, are the reminiscences of her eldest son, “Eddie.” Born at Norway House in 1869 and nursed by a Cree woman from infancy, Eddie was immersed in local Cree and Ojibwe life, culture, and language, in many ways exemplifying the process of reverse acculturation often in evidence among the children of missionaries. Like those of…

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9781771990035.01
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Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
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336 pages
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An Ethnohistorian in Rupert’s Land Unfinished Conversations
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BROWN,Jennifer S. H.

While diverse in their subject matter, the essays have thematic unity in their focus on the old HBC territory and its peoples from the 1600s to the present. More than an anthology, the chapters of An Ethnohistorian in Rupert’s Land provide examples of Brown’s exceptional skill in the close study of texts, including oral documents, images, artifacts, and other cultural expressions. The volum…

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9781771991711.01
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6 x 9, 368 pages