Travellers Through Empire Indigenous Voyages from by Cecilia Morgan HARDBACK

Travellers Through EmpireIndigenous Voyages from Early Canada\nAuthor(s): Cecilia Morgan\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, Canada\nImprint: McGill-Queen's University Press\nISBN-13: 9780773551343, 978-0773551343\nSynopsis\nIn the late eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century, an unprecedented number of Indigenous people especially Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabeg, and Cree travelled to Britain and other parts of the world. Who were these transatlantic travellers, where were they going, and what were they hoping to find? Travellers through Empire unearths the stories of Indigenous peoples including Mississauga Methodist missionary and Ojibwa chief Reverend Peter Jones, the Scots-Cherokee officer and interpreter John Norton, Catherine Sutton, a Mississauga woman who advocated for her people with Queen Victoria, E. Pauline Johnson, the Mohawk poet and performer, and many others. Cecilia Morgan retraces their voyages from Ontario and the northwes.