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Title: Oowikapun
How the Gospel Reached the Nelson River Indians

Author: Egerton Ryerson Young

Release Date: October 31, 2007 [EBook #23261]

Language: English

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Oowikapun, How the Gospel Reached the Nelson River Indians, By Reverend
Egerton Ryerson Young.

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An interesting book, written largely from the point of view of an
Indian, Oowikapun, who, when out hunting, receives a severe wound from a
bear, and is looked after by a converted Christian Indian, who has such
a different outlook on life from that of Oowikapun, for instance in the
treatment of his womenfolk.

The book goes on from there, and eventually a missionary is sent for to
the Nelson River, who delivers himself of an enormously long sermon,
of several hours duration, which apparently the occasion demanded.

There are many very interesting commentaries on the way of life of the
Indians and of the missionaries. The point is made that the size of
the area covered by each missionary may be as large as the whole of
France, or the whole of Germany, which makes strongly the point that
much of a missionary's life is spent travelling by canoe or dog-train.

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OOWIKAPUN, HOW THE GOSPEL REACHED THE NELSON RIVER INDIANS, BY REVEREND
EGERTON RYERSON YOUNG.

Or, How the Gospel Reached the Nelson River Indians.

CHAPTER ONE.

THE WOLF TRAP.

That Oowikapun was unhappy, strangely so, was evident to all in the
Indian village. New thoughts deeply affecting him had in some way or
other entered into his mind, and he could not but show that they were
producing a great change in him.

The simple, quiet, monotonous life of the young Indian hunter was
curiously broken in upon, and he could never be the same again. There
had come a decided awakening; the circle of his vision had suddenly
enlarged, and he had become aware of the fact that he was somet