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Material relating to Peter Jones

1825-1902

https://library.vicu.utoronto.ca/collections/special_collections/f17_peter_jones/series_1

Peter Jones’s records include correspondence; autobiographical material; hymns in translation (1877); histories of the Ojibwa Indians; (notes for) sermons and other professional material; diaries (1829), journals, photographs and other personal material; miniature portraits of Peter Jones and Eliza Field; material about Jones including leaflets and clippings; and other material including petitions from natives (1826–44).

53 cm of textual records; 1 photograph: b&w; 1 mezzotint

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Jones, Peter, 1802-1856

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Peter Jones (1802–1856) known in Ojibway as Kahkewaquonaby, meaning “sacred feathers’ or “sacred waving feathers”; also known as Desagondensta, in Kanienʼkéha, the Mohawk language, signifying “he stands people on their feet” was a Mississauga Ojibway chief, a member of the Eagle Totem, a farmer, a Methodist minister, an author, and a translator. He was born at Burlington Heights (Hamilton), Upper Canada, the son of Augustus Jones and Tuhbenahneequay. He married Eliza Field in 1833, and they h...