Bridging Two Peoples

Chief Peter E. Jones, 1843–1909

Bibliographic Data

ID23526402
AuthorsAllan Sherwin
Year2012
Publication date2012-06-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueBridging Two Peoples (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherWilfrid Laurier Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.51644/9781554586523
OpenAlexW4391964687
ISBN9781554586523
Open LibraryOL37187669M
LanguageEN
Citations received3

Bridging Two Peoples tells the story of Dr. Peter E. Jones, who in 1866 became one of the first status Indians to obtain a medical doctor degree from a Canadian university. He returned to his southern Ontario reserve and was elected chief and band doctor. As secretary to the Grand Indian Council of Ontario he became a bridge between peoples, conveying the chiefs’ concerns to his political mentor Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald, most importantly during consultations on the Indian Act. The third son of a Mississauga-Ojibwe missionary and his English wife, Peter E. Jones overcame paralytic polio to lead his people forward. He supported the granting of voting rights to Indians and edited Canada’s first Native newspaper to encourage them to vote. Appointed a Federal Indian Agent, a post usually reserved for non-Natives, Jones promoted education and introduced modern public health measures on his reserve. But there was little he could do to stem the ravages of tuberculosis that cemetery records show claimed upwards of 40 per cent of the band. The Jones family included Native and non-Native members who treated each other equally. Jones’s Mississauga grandmother is now honoured for helping survey the province of Ontario. His mother published books and his wife was an early feminist. The appendix describes how Aboriginal grandmothers used herbal medicines and crafted surgical appliances from birchbark.

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