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The history of Christian missions in Canada has traditionally been told only from the point of view of the missionaries, and not those they were attempting to convert. In "I Will Fear No Evil" , Susan Gray offers a new perspective on missionary-aboriginal encounters between the Berens River Ojibwa and Methodist and Catholic missionaries between 1875 and 1940. Supplementing her historical research with conversations and interviews with Berens River elders, Gray explores the ways in which Christian beliefs have become incorporated into the traditional Ojibwa worldview. The Ojibwa were active participants in these missionary encounters. They accepted those missionaries who treated them with sensitivity and respect and integrated Christian beliefs and practices into their established belief system. Today, a blend of Christian and Ojibwa ideas is still interwoven in the lives of Berens River residents, with both traditions holding meaning and sincerity. Their uniquely adaptive religion sheds new light on our understanding of cultural contact and conversion, placing the indigenous experience of these events at centre stage.
From 1930 to 1940, A. Irving Hallowell, a professor of anthropology
at the University of Pennsylvania, made repeated summer fieldwork
visits to Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, and to the Ojibwe community at
Berens River on the lake's east side. He traveled up the Berens
River several times to other Ojibwe communities as well, under the
guidance of William Berens, the treaty chief at Berens River from
1917 to 1947 and Hallowell's closest collaborator. "Contributions
to Ojibwe Studies" presents twenty-eight of Hallowell's writings
focusing on the Ojibwe people at Berens River.
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