receives and entertains author at
Metlakahtla, Southeastern Alaska, 7 |
interesting table talks of, 7
|
truthful report of and documents drawn
from, 8 |
his contention with Bishop Ridley and
the Church Missionary Society, 8 |
hears call to missionary work at
Beverley, Yorkshire, 16 |
accepts call and communicates with
Church Missionary Society, 18 |
his birth and early career at
Beverley, 20 |
sings solo parts in the Minster, 21 |
employed in a tannery, 22 |
his argument with an agnostic, 24 |
preaches his first sermon, 26 |
communicates with and later calls on
the Church Missionary Society, 28 |
refuses business advancement, 29 |
has two years' training at Highbury
College, 30 |
accepts field of mission work in
Alaska, and sets off in a warship from Plymouth, 37 |
his mode of life on board, 40 |
arrives June 13, 1857, at Victoria, B.
C, and has interview there with Governor Douglas of the Hudson's Bay
Co., 42, 43 |
insists on proceeding to Port Simpson,
but first picks up a knowledge of the Chinook language, 45 |
a Tsimshean Indian assists him in
this, 45 |
makes friendly acquaintance with
Rector (later Bishop) Cridge at Victoria, 46 |
proceeds on the steamship Otter for
Fort Simpson and arrives there October 1, 1857, 50 |
makes acquaintance with his future
wards, the Tsimshean Indians and their head chief Legaic, 53
|
acquires a knowledge of the Tsimshean
tongue, 57 |
behind the walls, 118 |
weighs against the breaking of the
Sabbath, 118 |
delivers his first gospel message,
122, 124 |
teaches Tsimshean children and builds
schoolhouse, 129 |
his life threatened, 133 |
Legaic relents and makes much of his "
teapots " or certificates of good character, 135 |
Duncan addresses school children and
their parents on Christmas Day, 136 |
his life in peril from the Indian
Cushwaht, 139 |
also from Loocoal, an Indian medicine
man, 141 |
visits Victoria and brings Rev. L. S.
Tugwell (a missionary) and his wife to Fort Simpson, 142 |
carries the Gospel to the Tsimshean
tribes of the Nass River, 143 |
missionary services held and schools
conducted there in the native tongue, 147 |
the Tugwells' good work there, but
later on they return to England, 149 |
Mr. Duncan removes to and forms a new
Christian village at Metlakahtla, seventeen miles south of Fort Simpson,
152 |
rules formulated to govern the
inhabitants of the new home, 154 |
arrival there of the entire Kitlahn
tribe under two chiefs, 155 |
smallpox outbreak among the Indians at
Fort Simpson, 156 |
chieftainship among the Christian
Tsimsheans abolished, 157 |
death of Legaic, the Tsimshean head
chief, under happy Christian auspices, 163 |
successful progress of the village at
Metlakahtla and its encouraging spiritual condition, 165 |
visit to Metlakahtla of Rev. E.
Cridge, 173 |
the latter has quarrel with Bishop
Hills, 173 |
natives opposed to hierarchical
domination, 174 |
temporal advancement of Metlakahtla,
stores opened and new industries started, 175 |
Hudson's Ray Co.'s monopoly yields to
Mr. Duncan's enterprise, 180 |
profits of trading establishments
applied to public improvements, 181 |
Indians given share in the government
of the village and the church, 181 |
privilege of the ballot given to
native electors, 183 |
Cushwaht again gives trouble and is
publicly flogged, 188 |
Simeon Johnson and Sebassah, chief of
the Kithrathtlas, kill white men and Mr. Duncan aids in bringing them to
trial at Victoria, where the death sentence is passed upon them,
afterwards commuted to life imprisonment at Metlakahtla, 189—192 |
subsequently reforming and becoming
Christians, they regain their liberty, 192 |
mode of getting * bad man out of town
by hoisting the black flag, 193 |
the old head chief of the Kitlahni
expelled, but promising to behave himself Mr. Duncan permits his return,
195 |
telephone instrument installed and
worked at Metlakahtla, 196 |
Mr. Duncan's attitude towards
Baranovitch, a Russian trader, who sold liquor unlawfully, 197 |
Duncan is given magisterial authority
to deal with such cases, his rectitude and success as a judge, 198 |
extracts from Judge Duncan's docket,
202 |
good effect of public whippings on
offenders of the law, 203 |
Duncan's successful treatment of wife
beating, 204 |
also of illegal whiskey selling, 206 |
takes proceedings against other of the
law's offenders, 208 |
Duncan's grit in tackling the Hudson's
Bay Co. for selling liquor to the Indians, 212 |
the Hans Bjornson case, 214 |
the murder of two white miners, Mr.
Duncan's influence and power in bringing one of the lawbreakers to
justice, 217 |
originates a mission at Kuinwoch, on
the Nass River, 218 |
Mr. Duncan erects mission house, with
dormitory for girls attending trading school, 220 |
he advises Christian men at
Metlakahtla not to take wives of the women in camp at Fort Simpson, 220 |
organizes fire brigade, 220 |
establishes Bible classes for men and
women, 221 |
leaves Metlakahtla to visit England
and pick up a knowledge of different trades and occupations, 222 |
at Beverley, his old English home, 323 |
calls on Mr. Cousins, his former
employer, 224 |
takes notes of various trades, 224 |
obtains instruments to form a brass
band for his natives at Metlakahtla, 225 |
buys looms and machinery at Victoria,
B. C, for a weaving plant, 226 |
teaches his Indians to play on the
brass band, the gamut of which he had himself already learned, 226 |
obtains an organ for his church
services from Victoria, 227 |
home again and his reception on his
return to Metlakahtla, 228 |
sets his industries at work and aids
in rebuilding his village, 230 |
erects a new church and schoolhouse,
231 |
his assistants in conducting the
latter, 232 |
Archdeacon Woods' pen sketch of Mr.
Duncan's Christian settlements at Metlakahtla and Kincolith, 233 |
he frees all slaves from bondage among
the neighboring Indians, 234 |
his account of the condition of some
relieved slaves, 235 |
visits Ottawa to urge governmental
action against land grabbers, 236 |
visit of Lord and Lady Dufferin to
Duncan's far off Indian mission, 236 |
visit of Admiral Prevost to
Metlakahtla, 237 |
the admiral's account of his brief
visit, 238 |
Mr. Duncan's contrivance for street
lighting, 239 |
Bishop Bompas' extended visit to
Metlakahtla, 240 |
Church Missionary Society suggests
that Mr. Duncan's mission should be turned into an Episcopal church and
that he (Mr. Duncan) should take priest's orders, 240 |
Mr. Duncan's repugnance to a "
churchly church " and his unwillingness to become an ordained priest,
241 |
the warship Plimper dispatched to the
Indian village and Mr. Duncan's peaceful intervention, 242 |
Mr. Duncan installs Rev. A. J. Hall in
Metlakahtla and himself leaves for Victoria, B. C, 244 |
fanatical outbreak in Mr. Duncan's
absence brings him home again, 245 |
Rev. Mr. Crosby fans the flame of
fanaticism and Mr. Duncan returns and checks it, 246 |
Bishop Ridley locates Rev. A. J. Hall
at Alert Bay, 249 |
Bishop Bompas refuses to play at
church politics at Metlakahtla and blesses Mr. Duncan's beneficent work
there, 249 |
the bishop baptizes and confirms the
native Christians and ordains Mr. Collison a priest, 249 |
Bishop Ridley is appointed to the
Episcopal See of Metlakahtla and arrives there November 1, 1879, 250 |
the bishop offends Mr. Duncan by his
assumption of full Episcopal state and ritualistic bent, while he
arraigns Mr. Duncan for withholding the sacrament of the Lord's Supper
from the native Christians, 251 |
Mr. Duncan's defense, and the bishop's
continued efforts to thwart him and undermine his influence with the
Church Missionary Society, 251-255 |
conference at Metlakahtla in July,
1881, from which the bishop absents himself and sulks, 256, 257 |
the conference asks that Metlakahtla
be made an independent lay mission, and the Society answers by calling
Mr. Duncan home to England to talk over matters, but this, at present,
Mr. Duncan is unable to act upon, 258-260 |
under
Bishop Ridley's malign influence, the Society is misled as to Mr.
Duncan's actions and the postponement of his design to go to England to
confer with it, and sunders its relations with Mr. Duncan and brings
about a rupture, 261-263 |
Mr. Duncan's
native following endorse and sustain him in abandoning the Mission House
and call upon him to continue to be their teacher and leader, as well
as their minister, which Mr. Duncan agrees to, the good work at
Metlakahtla going on as if there had been no severance of relations with
the Society in England, 264-267 |
the Society
grieves over the rupture caused by Bishop Ridley's indiscretion and lack
of good faith, and the latter writes Mr. Duncan making him all sorts of
propositions for his return, with the natives, to the fold, but these
are answered by the laconic and dignified reply of " too late," 268, 269 |
with
the malice of the serpent, the bishop now resorts to thwartings and
contemptible schemes to embarrass Mr. Duncan and his following, to
setting up a rival local store, and lay claim to the Indians' property,
besides getting into a personal wrangle with some of the natives — all
which created much bad blood and stirrings up of trouble, 270-278 |
a
further blow fell upon the native residents at Metlakahtla by the bishop
instigating an attack on the Indians' little patrimony and their rights
in holding land in the colony, which was denied them — the upshot of
all being to lead Mr. Duncan to seek a new home for his people in
Alaska, U. S., 280287 |
with
the sanction of the United States authorities the new Alaskan home, Port
Chester, on Annette Island, is given them and there Mr. Duncan and his
good Indian following proceed to settle, 288-290 |
temporary
dwellings erected, 291 |
"Pioneer
Day" established, 292 |
population of the new village home,
295 |
fire consumes Mr. Duncan s former
village home and Bishop Ridley's ill-gotten gains, 296 |
activities of Mr. Duncan's "pioneers"
at New Metlakahtla, 298 |
allegiance sworn to their new, adopted
country and constitution for the new community drafted and adopted, 299 |
draft of Mr. Duncan's declaration of
residents, 299, 300 |
growth of the " Benevolent Fund," and
loss by fire of new sawmill and sawn lumber, 302 |
building lots distributed and
dwellings erected, 303 |
printing establishment set up and
serial started— The Metlakahtlan, 30 |
Mr. Duncan's
article, " A Day at Metlakahtla," appears in serial, 306-309 |
leaves from
Mr. Duncan's diary, 310-314 |
new village
store founded and operated by Mr. Duncan, 315 |
Boys' Home,
Industrial Training School for Girls, and Mission Building erected, 316 |
Metlakahtla
Industrial Co. founded and capitalized, 317 |
Mr. Duncan
receives official visit of the Governor of Alaska, 317 |
right of
citizenship delayed, 318, 319 |
sawmill
burned but rebuilt and new machinery purchased, 319, 320 |
fire
consumes twenty dwellings in village, 320 |
new
provision for better fire protection made, 321 |
Mr. Duncan
erects his new church — "Westminster Abbey " it is styled, 321 |
sums raised
by Thanksgiving and New Years' offerings, 322 |
plank walks
laid down and other village improvements, Guest House built and
furnished, 323 |
jail, engine
house, and public library erected, 323 |
notable
contributions to the latter, 324, 325 |
fiftieth anniversary of Mr.
Duncan's arrival at Fort Simpson celebrated, 325,
326 |
addresses
and presentations to Mr. Duncan, 326 |
fiftieth
anniversary of Mr. Duncan's first sermon preached in Tsimshean also
noted, 326 |
results of
Mr. Duncan's faithful work and names noted of some of his assistants,
327, 328, 329 |
difficulty
in obtaining schoolmasters, 329 |
emigrants to
New Metlakahtla and census records, 330 |
deaths and
death rate, 331, 332 |
sights and
distinctive features of Mr. Duncan's new village — a model one, 333, 334 |
climate of
Alaska recorded, 334, 335 |
flowers and
berry growth, 335 |
Mr. Duncan
encourages native athletic sports, 340 |
does away
with matchmaking, 346 |
deference
shown to Mr. Duncan, 349 |
official
name of the church at Metlakahtla and Mr. Duncan's non-sectarianism,
358 |
his church
services, 360, 361 |
the " Grand
Old Man," 368 |
personal
appearance, 370 |
some habits
and characteristics, 372, 373 |
his attitude
towards a successor, 374 |