8 Michael Power, the Catholic Church, and the Evangelization of the First Nations Peoples of Western Upper Canada, 1841–48

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 3
6. The Great European Migration and Indigenous Populations 22
7. James Mooney (1861–1921): The “Indian Man” and the “Irish Catholic” 49
8. Jeremiah and Alma Curtin’s Indian Journeys 71
9. Transnational Dimensions of Irish Anti-Imperialism, 1842–54 92
10. Shamrock Aborigines: The Irish, the Aboriginal Australians, and Their Children 108
11. “It Is Curious How Keenly Allied in Character Are the Scotch Highlander and the Maori”: Encounters in a New Zealand Colonial Settlement 144
12. A Thorough Indian: Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Thomas Moore, Adam Kidd, and Irish Identifications with Aboriginal Culture in Canadian Literature 170
13. Michael Power, the Catholic Church, and the Evangelization of the First Nations Peoples of Western Upper Canada, 1841–48 195
14. Observations of a Scottish Moralist: Indigenous Peoples and the Nationalities of Canada 220
15. “Going to the Land of the Yellow Men”: The Representation of Indigenous Americans in Scottish Gaelic Literature 236
16. Transatlantic Rhythms: To the Far Nor’Wast and Back Again 253
17. The Fur Traders’ Garden: Horticultural Imperialism in Rupert’s Land, 1670–1770 287
18. Arctic Encounters: Twentieth-Century Scots in the Hudson’s Bay Company 304
19. Aboriginal Fiddling: The Scottish Connection 323
20. “Teller of Tales”: John Buchan, First Baron Tweedsmuir, and Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples 341
21. Contributors 371
22. Index 377