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Susan Elaine Gray, "I Will Fear No Evil:" Ojibwa-Missionary Encounters Along the Berens River, 1875-1940.

Publication: Manitoba History
Publication Date: 01-OCT-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Susan Elaine Gray, "I Will Fear No Evil:" Ojibwa-Missionary Encounters Along the Berens River, 1875-1940.(Book review)

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Susan Elaine Gray, "I Will Fear No Evil:" Ojibwa-Missionary Encounters Along the Berens River, 1875-1940 Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2006, 214 pages. ISBN 1552381986, $29.95 (paperback).

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Dr. Gray makes the central point that we have been too easily (sometimes inadvertently) caught up in negative assessments of "the missionary imposing Christianity on the disempowered Native." She goes on to show how this is not only wrong; it is also in varying degrees stereotyping, judgmental, and condescending. People everywhere make choices as to what they will believe, and it is rare that the situation is so coercively limited that they must make choice-less choices.

Gray makes this central point with some judicious subtlety of method, by...

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