A Victorian missionary and Canadian Indian policy : cultural synthesis vs. cultural replacement / David A. Nock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nock, David A., 1949-

Contributor:

Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion.

Series:

Editions SR ; v. 9.

Editions SR ; v. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wilson, Edward Francis, 1844-1915.

Wilson, Edward Francis.

Ojibwa Indians--Missions.

Ojibwa Indians.

Ojibwa Indians--Cultural assimilation.

Indians of North America--Missions--Canada.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation--Canada.

Missionaries--Canada--Biography.

Missionaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont., Canada : Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Canada's Indian policy has, since the 1830s, consisted mainly of attempts at cultural replacement. Although rarely practised, cultural synthesis of native and western cultures has been advocated as an important alternative especially in the last ten years. This book is a study of E.F. Wilson (1844–1915), a Canadian missionary of British background, who experienced, promoted, and advocated both approaches to native policy during his lifetime. On the one hand, he practised cultural replacement at the Shingwauk and Wawanosh Schools which he founded at Sault Ste. Marie; on the other hand, he advocated programs of cultural synthesis and political autonomy which were a distinct departure from the paternalist notions of the 1880s and 1890s. His support of such ideas was fostered by the influence of leading anthropologists such as Horatio Hale but also by his own extensive travel and observation of Indians, particularly the Cherokee Indians of Oklahoma. This book describes the efforts of a nineteenth-century Canadian missionary who entertained radical notions of Indian self-government and cultural synthesis, as well as more conventional ideas of native assimilation and cultural replacement.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

E.F. Wilson's Early Life

Wilson, Venn and the Church Missionary Society: A Policy of Cultural Synthesis

Wilson and Native Education: A Program of Cultural Replacement

Influences on Wilson's Thought: Horatio Hale and the Cherokee Nation

Wilson and the Fair Play Papers: Cultural Synthesis and Political Autonomy

Conclusion: The Fate of Cultural Synthesis and Cultural Replacement

Appendix A

Appendix B

Selected Bibliography

Index

SR Supplements

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliography and index.

ISBN:

9786613810380

9781282232648

1282232649

9780889206649

0889206643

OCLC:

243587034