TY - BOOK ID - 14222629 TI - Mission life in Cree-Ojibwe country : memories of a mother and son AU - Young, Elizabeth Bingham AU - Brown, Jennifer S. H. AU - Young, E. Ryerson PY - 2014 SN - 9781771990059 9781771990042 9781771990035 1771990031 177199004X 1771990058 1322674736 PB - Athabasca University Press DB - UniCat KW - Missionaries KW - Methodists KW - Methodist Church KW - Mothers and sons KW - Cree Indians KW - Ojibwa Indians KW - Missions KW - Young, Elizabeth Bingham. KW - Young, E. Ryerson KW - Algic Indians KW - Anishinabe Indians KW - Bawichtigoutek Indians KW - Bungee Indians KW - Bungi Indians KW - Chipouais Indians KW - Chippewa Indians KW - Lac Courte Oreilles Indians KW - Ochepwa Indians KW - Odjibway Indians KW - Ojebwa Indians KW - Ojibua Indians KW - Ojibwauk Indians KW - Ojibway Indians KW - Ojibwe Indians KW - Otchilpwe Indians KW - Otchipwe Indians KW - Salteaux Indians KW - Saulteaux Indians KW - Algonquian Indians KW - Indians of North America KW - Sons and mothers KW - Mother and child KW - Sons KW - Christian sects KW - Calvinistic Methodists KW - Religious adherents KW - Rossville Mission KW - Methodist missionary KW - Ojibwe KW - Norway House KW - Egerton Ryerson Young KW - material culture KW - Cree UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14222629 AB - In May of 1868, Elizabeth Bingham Young and her new husband, Egerton Ryerson Young, began a long journey from Hamilton, Ontario, to the Methodist mission of Rossville. For the next eight years, Elizabeth supported her husband’s work at two mission houses, Norway House and then Berens River. Unprepared for the difficult conditions and the “eight months long” winter, and unimpressed with “eating fish twenty-one times a week,” the young Upper Canada wife rose to the challenge. In these remote outposts, she gave birth to three children, acted as a nurse and doctor, and applied both perseverance and determination to learning Cree, while also coping with poverty and short supplies within her community. Her account of mission life, as seen through the eyes of a woman, is the first of its kind to be archived and now to appear in print. Accompanying Elizabeth’s memoir, and offering a counterpoint to it, are the reminiscences of her eldest son, “Eddie.” Born at Norway House in 1869 and nursed by a Cree woman from infancy, Eddie was immersed in local Cree and Ojibwe life, culture, and language, in many ways exemplifying the process of reverse acculturation often in evidence among the children of missionaries. Like those of his mother, Eddie’s memories capture the sensory and emotional texture of mission life, providing a portrait that is startling in its immediacy. Skillfully woven together and meticulously annotated by Jennifer Brown, these two remarkable recollections of mission life are an invaluable addition to the fields of religious, missionary, and indigenous history. In their power to resurrect experience, they are also a fascination to read. ER -