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Canada and the United States



Keith R. Widder. Battle for the Soul: Métis Children Encounter Evangelical Protestants at Mackinaw Mission, 1823–1837. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. 1999. Pp. xxiv, 254. $24.95.

In this book, his revised doctoral dissertation, Keith R. Widder has carefully researched the history of William and Amanda Ferry's evangelical Protestant mission on Mackinac Island, Michigan Territory, in the 1820s and 1830s, a time of critical change as the fur trade declined and American settlement expanded in the region. The book organizes and presents much fresh and useful information. Its five chapters explore the origins of the families around Mackinac (chapter one), the missionaries and their outlooks (chapter two), the history of Mackinac 1815–1837 and the responses of its multi-ethnic community to the mission and to Americanization (chapters three and four), and the nature and consequences of the mission experience for the children who lived at its school (chapter five). . . .


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