Travellers through Empire

Cecilia Morgan is a professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at OISE, University of Toronto.Cecilia Morgan is professor of history at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

"Prolific and respected historian Morgan makes an important contribution to scholarship on the mobility of Indigenous peoples in the 19th century. Although they were far from the first North American Indigenous peoples to travel overseas, Morgan frames their stories within the context of Indigenous reactions to 19th-century imperial expansion, the actions of settler governments encroaching on Indigenous territories, and settler efforts to restrict Indigenous mobility, confining people geographically, politically, culturally, and socially. Required reading for 19th-century Canadian and Indigenous history. Highly recommended." Choice

"An excellent addition to the growing body of literature on Indigenous mobility." Historical Studies in Education / Revue d'histoire de l'éducation

"Morgan encourages historians to find similar stories in the experiences of Indigenous peoples from across North America. These men, women, and children brought Indigenous culture to the heart of the empire, shaped and were shaped by their relations with