2012 Aboriginal Studies - UBC Press

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the praying Man
Henry Bird Steinhauer, Ojibwe and
Methodist Minister
Isaac Kholisle Mabindisa
Until he was about nine, Henry Bird
Steinhauer was an Ojibwe – born around
1820, in the area of Lake Simcoe, and
probably named Sowengisik. In 1828, he
was baptized into the Christian faith,
and his life changed. In 1855, he traveled
to London to be ordained and was then
posted to Alberta. There, he founded a
mission at Whitefish Lake, which would
become his life’s work. But Steinhauer
did not forget his Aboriginal roots. The
Praying Man – the first full-length biography
of Steinhauer – explores the tensions
inherent in the life of someone who owes
allegiance to two cultures, one of which
seeks to dominate the other.
IsAAC MAbINDIsA has had a distinguished
career as an educator in his
native South Africa and in Canada. He
was a coordinator of Native Studies at
Athabasca University before returning
to his homeland to continue his teaching
activities. DANIeL JoHNs, a former
journalist, now works as an investigator
for the Alberta Ombudsman.
2011, 978-1-926836-06-5 Pb $24.95
420 pages, 6 x 9"
History, Aboriginal History, biography,
Memoirs & Letters, Religion &
spirituality, Missiology
AU Press
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the Archaeology of nativelived
Colonialism
Neal Ferris
Neal Ferris examines how communities
from three Aboriginal nations in what
is now southwestern Ontario negotiated
the changes that accompanied the arrival
of Europeans and maintained a cultural
continuity with their pasts that has been
too often overlooked in conventional
“master narrative” histories of contact.
This book convincingly utilizes historical
archaeology to link the Aboriginal experience
of the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries to the deeper history of sixteenth-
and seventeenth-century interactions
and with pre-European times. It
shows how these Aboriginal communities
succeeded in retaining cohesiveness
through centuries of foreign influence
and material innovations by maintaining
ancient, adaptive social processes
that both incorporated European ideas
and reinforced historically understood
notions of self and community.
NeAL FeRRIs holds the Lawson Chair of
Canadian Archaeology at the University
of Western Ontario.
2009, 978-0-8165-2705-2 HC $50.00
2011, 978-0-8165-0238-7 Pb $24.95
240 pages, 6 x 9"
Archaeology, Aboriginal studies, History
The Archaeology of Colonialism in Native
North America
University of Arizona Press
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