Travellers through empire indigenous voyages from early Canada /

"In the late eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century, an unprecedented number of Indigenous people--especially Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabeg, and Cree--travelled to Britain and other parts of the world. Who were these transatlantic travellers, where were they going, and what were...

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Author / Creator: Morgan, Cecilia Louise, 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Imprint: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017]
Series:McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 91.
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Online Access:Available in MAS Reference eBook Collection.
Available in EBSCO eBooks.
Table of Contents:
  • "Of pleasing countenance and pleasant manners" : John Norton's transatlantic voyages
  • Missionary moments and transatlantic celebrity, 1830-60 : the Anishinaabeg of Upper Canada
  • Intimate entanglements within empire
  • Intimate networks and maps of domesticity : the North West fur trade
  • Playing "Indian" : Ojibwe performers, London, 1840s
  • Politics and performance at empire's height
  • An ending
  • and an epilogue.