By Donald B. Smith
Much of the floor on which Canada’s greatest metropolitan centre now stands used to be bought by way of the British from the Mississauga Indians for a check that during the top amounted to 10 shillings. Sacred Feathers (1802–1856), or Peter Jones, as he grew to become recognized in English, grew up listening to numerous tales of the treachery in these negotiations, early classes within the desire for Indian vigilance in protecting their land and their rights. Donald B. Smith’s biography of this extraordinary Ojibwa chief indicates how good these early classes have been realized and the way Jones used them to strengthen the welfare of his people.
A groundbreaking booklet, Sacred Feathers was once one of many first biographies of a Canadian Aboriginal to be in response to his personal writings – drawing on Jones’s letters, diaries, sermons, and his historical past of the Ojibwas – and the 1st smooth account of the Mississauga Indians. As summarized by way of M.T. Kelly in Saturday Night while the booklet used to be first released in 1988, “This biography achieves anything outstanding. Peter Jones emerges from its pages alive. We don’t basically comprehend him by means of the book’s finish: we all know him.”
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