Battell Lowman, Emma (2014) Indigenous methodologies, missionary lives. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.

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Abstract

This thesis is a study of the lives of two missionaries – Stanley Eaton Higgs and Jean-Marie Raphael Le Jeune – who worked closely with Nlha7kápmx and Secwepemc peoples in the south central Interior of British Columbia (BC), Canada, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is a study of the networks of power and identity that swirled around these colonial actors on the ‘edge of empire,’ in the midst of a burgeoning settler colonial society, during a time of rapid change and incredible challenge for the Indigenous communities in which these missionaries lived and worked. The crux of this thesis is a methodological intervention into knowledge production in the academy: an attempt to employ Indigenous research methodologies as a non-indigenous researcher working primarily on the archive-informed histories of non-indigenous individuals in Canada. This effort involves an exploration of the processes, results, and impacts of taking up Indigenous research methodologies in these non-traditional domains. Framed around Indigenous knowledge principles of place, language, story, and relationship, and a spatial and temporal ‘spiral’ of ontological movement, this research project challenges commonly perceived positions and responsibilities of Settler Canadian researchers, and opens up new possibilities for ethical and relational research.

Item Type:	Thesis or Dissertation (PhD)
Subjects:	F History United States, Canada, Latin America > F1001 Canada (General)
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Higgs, Stanley Eaton, Le Jeune, J. M. R., 1855-1930, Shuswap Indians, Missionaries -- British Columbia, British Columbia -- History -- 18th century, British Columbia -- History -- 19th century
Official Date:	May 2014
Dates:	Date Event May 2014 Submitted
Institution:	University of Warwick
Theses Department:	Department of Sociology
Thesis Type:	PhD
Publication Status:	Unpublished
Sponsors:	University of Warwick ; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada ; Canadian Historical Association ; University of Warwick. Department of Sociology ; University of Edinburgh. Centre of Canadian Studies ; Linnéuniversitetet
Extent:	Fine, Robert, 1945- ; Anderson, Clare, 1969-
Language:	eng

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