Travellers through Empire: Indigenous Voyages from Early Canada (McGill-Queen’s Native and Northern Series)

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Within the late eighteenth century and all over the nineteenth century, an unprecedented choice of Indigenous people – especially Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabeg, and Cree – travelled to Britain and other parts of the sector. Who were these transatlantic travellers, where were they going, and what were they hoping to seek out?

Travellers through Empire unearths the stories of Indigenous peoples including Mississauga Methodist missionary and Ojibwa chief Reverend Peter Jones, the Scots-Cherokee officer and interpreter John Norton, Catherine Sutton, a Mississauga woman who advocated for her people with Queen Victoria, E. Pauline Johnson, the Mohawk poet and performer, and plenty of others. Cecilia Morgan retraces their voyages from Ontario and the northwest fur trade and details their efforts in a foreign country, which included political negotiations with the Crown, raising funds for missionary work, receiving an education, giving readings and performances, and teaching international audiences about Indigenous cultures. As they travelled, these remarkable individuals forged new families and friendships and left at the back of newspaper interviews, travelogues, letters, and diaries that supply insights into their cross-cultural encounters.

Chronicling the emotional ties, contexts, and desires for agency, resistance, and negotiation that made up our minds their diverse experiences, Travellers through Empire provides surprising vantage points on First Nations travels and representations Within the heart of the British Empire.

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