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1860 · ref. 004537 — Toronto: Anson Green 1860. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Duodecimo xi 424 pages minor foxing short breaks at the folds of the brown embossed cloth. Lacks the lithographed portrait frontispiece no evidence that it was ever inserted. Ex libris William Binkley. Rare - The Frank T. Siebert Library of the North American Indian Sales of 1999 had three works by Jones but not this one. Kehkewaguonaby was a Mississauga Ojibwa Chief British father Ojibwa mother who converted to Wesleyan Methodism and was ordained a minister. These are the first journals kept by a Canadian native. He became the first native missionary to the Ojibwa and with his brother John was the first translator of books of the Bible into Ojibwa and Chippewa. He was also photographed in his native regalia circa 1844-46 - thus the earliest known photograph of a North American Indian. Sabin 36591. This work includes his autobiography with an account of his conversion experience and the details of his ministries. Anson Green hardcover