History Pre-confederation (to 1867)
Prophetic Identities
Indigenous Missionaries on British Colonial Frontiers, 1850-75
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2012
- Category
- Pre-Confederation (to 1867), Native American Studies, Missions
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774822794
- Publish Date
- Apr 2012
- List Price
- $85.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774822800
- Publish Date
- Jan 2013
- List Price
- $32.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774822817
- Publish Date
- Apr 2012
- List Price
- $32.95
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Description
The presence of Indigenous people among the ranks of British missionaries in the nineteenth century complicates narratives of all-powerful missionaries and hapless Indigenous victims. What compelled these men to embrace Christianity? How did they reconcile being both Christian and Indigenous in an age of empire? Tolly Bradford finds answers to these questions in the lives of Henry Budd, a Cree missionary from western Canada, and Tiyo Soga, a Xhosa missionary from southern Africa. He portrays these men not as victims of colonialism but rather as individuals who drew on faith, family, and their ties to Britain to construct a new sense of indigeneity in a globalizing world.
About the author
Awards
- Short-listed, Aboriginal History Prize, Canadian Historical Association
Contributor Notes
Tolly Bradford is an assistant professor of history at Concordia University College of Alberta in Edmonton.
Editorial Reviews
Tolly Bradford is among very few historians to compare the spread of British colonization and mission Christianity in nineteenth-century North America and Southern Africa. This thoroughly researched and well-written book examines what it meant to be indigenous and Christian at a time of violent and exploitive European colonial conquest and portrays indigenous missionaries Henry Budd of western Canada and Tiyo Soga of the Eastern Cape as active agents with minds of their own.
Timothy J. Stapleton, Professor of History, Trent University