| 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 |
| inveighs 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 |
