Remaking Indignity
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| Titles | Remaking Indignity: Indigenous Missionaries in the British Empire, 1820-1875 |
| Name | Justin Tolly Bradford |
| Type of Resource | text |
| Genre | Thesis |
| Abstract | --Description taken from "Remaking Indignity:Indigenous Missionaries in the British Empire, 1820-1875"-- In the 1840s, Christian mission organizations from Britain began establishing self-governing, independent indigenous churches staffed by ordained indigenous missionaries. By the 1860s, this initiative had created a world-wide cohort of ordained indigenous missionaries with close ties to Britain and Christianity. This dissertation compares two of these early indigenous missionaries, Henry Budd a Cree from western Canada (1812-1875) and Tiyo Soga a Xhosa from southern Africa (1829-1871). It argues that while Budd and Soga were part of the same process of modernizing indigenaity, their local frontier and particular missionary network led them to create different definitions of indigenaity and distinct kinds of indigenous communities. The thesis begins by explaining how both men were guided by their family and sense of "home" to become missionaries and how both articulated, through their writings and actions, a similar sense of "modern indigenaity." This modern indigenaity comprised of two parts: a new identity that located the meaning of indigenaity not in religion or lifestyle, but in land, language and history; and a new sense of global consciousness that enabled the missionaries to see connections between their lives and the lives of people around the world. The second section of the thesis examines how Budd and Soga, acting as advisors to and advocates for indigenous people, tried to establish new - but very distinct - kinds of indigenous communities in their respective regions. Budd, drawing on the Cree band structure and fluid fur-trade frontier, hoped to establish a "Cree village community" that was Christian, semi-agrarian and bound together by the Cree language. Soga, relying on the hierarchal tribal structure of the Xhosa and nearly a century of race-based warfare between whites and Africans in his region, fostered a "Xhosa national community" that was larger and more robust than Budd's village and bound by race and history as well as language. These different communities reveal that while Budd transformed Creeness into a predominantly linguistic and territorial category of identity, Soga made Xhosaness into a political identity. These remade community identities, and their connection to British Christianity, are the legacies of indigenous missionaries. |
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| Form | text |
| Access Condition | Responsibility regarding questions of copyright that may arise in the use of any images is assumed by the researcher |
| Subject Hierarchical Geographic | North America--Canada------ |
| Subject Local Name | --Mistawasis--Saskatchewan--Cree--Alberta--Missionary------------ |
| Access Condition | Responsibility regarding questions of copyright that may arise in the use of any images is assumed by the researcher |