A historical sketch of the "Old Mission," and its missionaries to the Ojibway Indians : on Madeline Island, Lake Superior, Wisconsin . METHODIST MISSIONARIES VISIT THE ISLAND. 37 mission church. But some years later, there came a determinedeffort of the land-grabbers, to compel the removal of the Indianswest of the Mississippi. Mr. Wheeler valiantly resisted this at-tempt, and after a long hard struggle against the corrupt In-dian ring at Washington, the Indians were permitted to rema nupon their present reservations. A Visit from Methodist Missionaries. A Methodist mission bad been establishe
A historical sketch of the "Old Mission," and its missionaries to the Ojibway Indians : on Madeline Island, Lake Superior, Wisconsin . METHODIST MISSIONARIES VISIT THE ISLAND. 37 mission church. But some years later, there came a determinedeffort of the land-grabbers, to compel the removal of the Indianswest of the Mississippi. Mr. Wheeler valiantly resisted this at-tempt, and after a long hard struggle against the corrupt In-dian ring at Washington, the Indians were permitted to rema nupon their present reservations. A Visit from Methodist Missionaries. A Methodist mission bad been established in 1835 at LAnse,some 200 miles east of La Pointe, on Keewenaw Bay. In 1845Bev. J. H. Pitezel was the missionary in charge there. We quotefrom his book, Lights and Shadows of Missionary Life : Our Indians were to receive their annuities at La Pointe. Itwas agreed that a few should go and receive the pay, and the restremain at the mission. I had arranged to accompany them. On Aug. 12 we left in a large bark canoe which the chief, DavidKing, had made for the purpose. There were four stout Indians,besides David, who himself has a
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