Voyageurs of the Sudan Born in a small Indigenous community along the Red River, at the age of twenty-four Jeremiah Johnston found himself far from home, along the sun-baked banks of the Nile. Johnston was one of many Indigenous "voyageurs" sent to the 1884 British campaign to rescue General …
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Communion
Communion Du Vernet excitedly recounts the communion service during his first Sunday "in a mission to the heathen." It's not hard to understand Du Vernet's enthusiasm, considering that for him, Holy Communion was a ritual of profound connection between Jesus and the Christians gathered in a Church …
Dog Feast
Dog Feast Du Vernet describes in his diary an Indigenous ceremony that he believed to be the Dog Feast. While it is unclear whether this is what Du Vernet actually saw, the dog feast was an existing Indigenous ceremony. The dog feast, as its name suggests, involved the ceremonial slaying and …