John Johnson Enmegahbowh letters, 1870-1879.

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John Johnson Enmegahbowh letters, 1870-1879.

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Letters from an Ottawa Indian Episcopal Priest, a missionary to the Chippewa Indians on the White Earth Reservation (Minn.), to the Rev. Samuel Hollingsworth (Greenfield, Mass. and Port Chester, N.Y.).

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Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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Enmegahbowh, J. J. (John Johnson), 1812?-1902

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Ottawa-Chippewa Indian and protestant preacher who served first as a Methodist and later as an Episcopal clergyman among the Chippewa in Minnesota, 1839-1902. Born in Canada around 1812, Enmegahbowh was educated at a Methodist mission school in Jacksonville, Ill., and ordained as the Rev. John Johnson. Working as a Methodist missionary to the Chippewas from 1839 until 1844, when the church abandoned its mission, Enmegahbowh convinced the Episcopalians to start a mission ...