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| '''George Copway''' (1818?-1869) was a Mississauga ] writer, lecturer, and advocate of ] |
'''George Copway''' (1818?-1869) was a Mississauga ] writer, lecturer, and advocate of ]. His Ojibwa name was ''Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bow'' or "Standing Firm" or "He who stands firm". | ||
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George Copway (1818?-1869) was a Mississauga Ojibwa writer, lecturer, and advocate of Native Americans. His Ojibwa name was Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bow or "Standing Firm" or "He who stands firm".
He is best known for writing the books titled:
- Life, History and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-Bowh (1847),
- Organization of a New Indian Territory, East of the Missouri River (1850),
- Life, Letters, and Speeches of Kah-ge-ga-gah-Bowh, or G. Copway, a chief of the Ojibwa Nation(1850),
- Ojibwa Conquest (1850), and
- Indian Life and Indian History (1860).
In 1851, he started his own newspaper in New York titled Copway's American Indian which ran for approximately three months.
He began his life near Rice Lake on the north shore of Lake Ontario and converted to Methodism with his entire family. Previous to the conversion, he had been raised in a traditional Ojibwa family. After conversion, he attended the local mission school and eventually became a missionary for the Methodist church.
In 1840, he met English woman Elizabeth Howell whose family were farmers in the Toronto area. They married and moved to Minnesota to serve as missionaries. They later returned to Canada where he served as a missionary for the Saugeen and Rice Lake Bands of the Ojibwa. In 1846, he was accused and convicted of embezzlement and was defrocked by the Methodists.
He then left Canada for New York, and published his first book in 1847.
References
"George Copway" by Donald Smith Encyclopedia of North American Indians
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