Holograph manuscript, with corrections and a table of contents, providing an account of Christian missionarary work among the Iroquois, Cherokees, California Indians, Eskimo, Wyandots, Objibwas and other American Indians. Includes sections on Hans Egede's work among Greenland's Eskimo population, the efforts of Presbyterians in Alaska, and the Franciscan's California missions. Includes an incomplete chapter about Richard Henry Pratt and the schools he established in St. Augustine, Florida, Virginia, and Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Description:
Margaret Winslow authored numerous young adult novels between 1875 and 1892 while living in Boston, Massachusetts and Saugerties, New York. She also published promotional stories about the American women's gospel temperance movement and the YMCA. and Purchased from Carmen D. Valentino on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2002.
Subject (Name):
Egede, Hans,--1686-1758, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (Va.), Pratt, Richard Henry,--1840-1924, and United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.)
Subject (Topic):
Cherokee Indians--Missions, Cree Indians--Missions, Eskimos--Missions--Greenland, Franciscans--California, Indians of North America--Missions, Indians of North America--Missions--California, Indians of North America--Missions--Northwest Territories, Iroquois Indians--Missions, Ojibwa Indians--Missions, Presbyterians--Missions--Alaska, and Wyandot Indians--Missions
Photographs of the United States Indian School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Image Count:
2
Description:
2 negatives scanned from collection of 17 negatives : b & w ; 8.8 x 13.8 cm. and Total number of images in collection is 32. The photographic prints are reference surrogates created from the negatives after acquisition by the library.
