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Author Bio
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418:
Kunache kehche musenuhekun kusase tastemunt menu oske tastemunt, ketepayehchekamenuoo menu kepemacheyeaimenuoo chesus kurist
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The
Bible translated into the language of the Knisteneaux, Kristeneaux, or Crees of North America
. 1861-1862.
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Steinhauer, Henry Bird (1820-1884.)
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1820-1884. Ojibway born Rama Indian settlement, Lake Simcoe; baptized, 1825; American benefactor provided name and funds for education at Cazenovia College (New York) and Upper Canada Academy (Cobourg, Ontario); accompanied James Evans to Hudson's Bay Company territories, 1840; stationed as a Methodist missionary at Rainy Lake, 1840-1843; assisted Evans and Mason at Norway House, 1843-1850; appointed to Oxford House, 1850-1854; ordained in England, 1855; at Lac La Biche, Alberta, 1855-1857; sent to Whitefish Lake, northeast of Edmonton, to found a Native Christian community; also known as Shahwahnegezhik (Ojibwa) or Sowengisik (Cree) meaning "southern skies" (Riddell, Methodism in the middle west; Robertson, Political manual of the province of Manitoba).
Other authors of Peel 418
- Mason, Sophia Thomas (1822-1861.)
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- Mason, William (1813?-1893.)
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- Sinclair, John
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