Indigenous Content in the Mennonite Archives of Ontario: Individuals

• Epp, Frank H.
  • Research for a manuscript on Indigenous peoples in Canada, 1957-1984
    These files, containing mostly secondary source material, were for research into a book that was to be the third volume in Epp's "Portrait of a People in Conflict" series. The following files are located in Hist.Mss.1.26.1.103 Writing:
    • 103 -B - In Indians, 1976-1984. Includes transcript of an interview with Carol Roberts, Lawrence Henry and Alphonse Laroque at Roseau River, 1982; transcript of interview with Emma Laroque in Winnipeg, 1982.
    • 103 -B - In Indians, 1981-1985
    • 103 -B - In Indians, 1957-1964
    • 103 -B - In Grant Application, 1982
       
  • Committee work on Indigenous peoples and racism in Canada, 1970-1972
    These files are located in Hist.Mss.1.26.2.88:
    • 88 - D - CCC - CCA - Racism, 1970-1972.
    • 88 - D - CCC - CCA - Racism, 1971
    • 88 - D - CCC - CCA - Racism - Indians, 1970
    • 88 - D - CCC - CCA - Racism - JCIW Joint Committee on Indian Work, 1972
       
  • Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND)
    These files are located in Hist.Mss.1.26.1.85:
    • 85 - GC - INA - JE Jake Epp, 1979
    • 85 - GC - INA Indian and Northern Affairs, 1973-1979
    • 85 - EE - 78 - Po Policies, 1976-1981
      This is a file on election issues.
       
  • The following files are located in Hist.Mss.1.26.1.9:
    • 9 - A Anthropology, 1957-1960. Canada's Native Peoples
    • 9 - A - JAL Jacob A. Loewen, 1963-1965. Indians of Paraguay
    • 9 - Et - Es Eskimos, 1960s, 1972
    • 9 - Et - In Indians, 1963-1984
      Includes book The Way of the Indian (Thirteen Documentary Programs Broadcast on CBC Radio).
    • 9 - Et - In - Dene Consultation, 1979
      Includes Project North materials.
    • 9 - Et - In - PN Project North, 1963, 1977-79
       
  • Northern Light Gospel Mission, 1976,  Hist.Mss.1.26.2.103.6.3/5
     
• Redekop, Calvin Wall
  • Indian Settlement Committee of Mennonites in Paraguay, 1962-1978, Hist.Mss.1.87.2/2,3
  • Old Colony Mennonites and Maya peoples in Belize, Hist.Mss.1.87.2/8
  • Mennonite and Indigenous census statistics in the Chaco, Paraguay, 1928-1979, predominantly 1940-1971, Hist.Mss.1.87.2/9
  • Mennonites and Indigenous peoples in Paraguay, Hist.Mss.1.87.2/14

• Burkholder, Lewis J., Conference Historian file. Hist.Mss.1.4.2/8
  Includes brief stories about Hoover family encounters with Indigenous people in the Rainham, Ontario area prior to the 1930s.
   
• Gingrich, Arnold,  Indian-Eskimo Association of Canada information file, 1966-67. Hist.Mss.1.23.3.2/6
  See also Mennonite Central Committee Ontario Indian Study Committee section for Indian-Eskimo Association files.
   
• Gingrich, Newton L..
  • Canadian Coalition for Development, 1970-1972 Hist.Mss.1.58.2.32
    Gingrich was a representative of Mennonite Central Committee to this coalition to "speed up social justice in Canada and abroad." The coalition included Indigenous groups.
  • “Native people” file, 1970-1979. Hist.Mss.1.58.2/100
    This file predominantly contains documents related to the Northern Native Rights Campaign of 1979, sponsored by Project North at the request of Indigenous participants: Council for Yukon Indians, the Dene Nation, the Nishga Tribal Council, the Labrador Inuit Association and the Naskapi-Montagnais Innu Association.
  • Northern Youth Programs, 1977-1979, Hist.Mss.1.58.2.269
    See also Northern Youth Programs

These are academic papers collected by the Archives, mainly written by students at Conrad Grebel University College.

• "Biography of Richard Beasley." 1972.  Hist.Mss.13.18
• "Mennonite involvement at Cape Croker Reserve." 1993.  Hist.Mss.13.102
• "Joseph Brant and the Grand River Land Controversy: A Case of Policy, Law, Humanity and Justice." 1994?. Hist.Mss.13.112
• "The Injustice of Early Land Transactions Between the British Crown and the Mississaugas of Southern Ontario.” 1994. Hist.Mss.13.113
• "History of Mennonites and Natives in the Last One Hundred Years.” 1977. Hist.Mss.13.142
• "The Mennonite Pioneer Mission: A Venture of Faith." 1960. Hist.Mss.14.98
• “Native Concerns: The First 12 Years," 1987. Hist.Mss.14.108
• Land | School | Now | You: First Nations Solidarity Beginnings for an Evangelical Youth Group.” 2017. XXVI-18.6/107
• "A Call to Heathenize the Indigenous Christian." 2020. XXVI-18.6/129
• "Indigenous Worship Practices in the Christian Setting: Critical Observations of Indigenous Cultural and Spiritual Traditions and Their Use Within the Christian Worship Context." 2020.  XXVI-18.6/134