Index 2 The Apostle of Alaska The Story of William Duncan of Metlakahtla This part of the index was originally one giant paragraph, and very difficult to read.  I've taken the liberty of breaking that paragraph down into individual lines.  To make it easier in your search, you will probably want to use your CTRL-F key and search for the topic of Mr. Duncan's life that you're interested in. Duncan, William 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