History of the Ojebway Indians

by Peter Jones

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278 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1861

About the author

Peter Jones, or “Kahkewaquonaby” in Ojibwe (meaning “sacred feathers”) and “Desagondensta” in Mohawk (meaning “he stands people on their feet”), was a Mississauga Ojibwe chief born in 1802 in Upper Canada at Burlington Heights (present-day Hamilton). He married an Englishwoman named Elizabeth Field and they had five sons, four of whom survived infancy. He died in 1856 near Brantford.

Jones was a Methodist minister and worked his entire life for the rights of the Mississauga people, especially education and land rights, at a time of greatly expanding white settlement in Upper Canada. He left behind considerable written records including histories of the Anishinabe people, sermons, letters, and journals. Some of his writing has been published in book form in his History of the Ojebway Indians and Life and Journals.