Tag: cree people

The Story of Mask-e-pe-toon – A Powerful Cree Chief Who Found the Truth Through Forgiveness

By Egerton Ryerson Young(Missionary to the Cree people in Manitoba in the late 1800s) The following incident occurred years ago on the great plains of the Canadian Northwest, long before the waves of Anglo-Saxon civilization began to surge over those…

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Two Sources of Power But Only One Source of Truth

Nanci Des Gerlaise is a First Nations Canadian Cree woman who is the daughter and granddaughter of medicine men. Growing up, her life was filled with the practices and mystical experiences brought on from Native Spirituality. Today, as a born-again…

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Native American Men Who Longed For “the Book” and Were Denied

LTRP Note: The following is a story from the book Stories From Indian Wigwams and Northern Campfires. The book was written by Egerton Ryerson Young, a young Canadian missionary in the late 1800s, who, with his wife and small children, spent years with the Native people…

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The Death of John Chau – A Missionary’s Attempt to Bring Light Into Darkness

  Two weeks ago,  a 26-year-old Christian man named John Allen Chau was killed when he attempted to make contact with a remote tribe on North Sentinel Island, one of the Andaman Islands of India According to reports, Chau had…

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NEW BOOKLET: Forgiving—A Story of Forgiveness and How and Why We Should Forgive

NEW BOOKLET: Forgiving—A Story of Forgiveness and How and Why We Should Forgive by Maria Kneas and Egerton Ryerson Young is our newest Lighthouse Trails Booklet. The Booklet is 14 pages long and sells for $1.95 for single copies. Quantity…

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A Native American Who Wished to Leave the “Old Way” and Follow the Christian Way

By Egerton Ryerson Young Written in the late 1800s (author of Stories from Indian Wigwams and Northern Campfires) I was interrupted one day while sitting in my study by the quiet entrance of a stalwart Indian whom I had not…

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The Story of Mask-e-pe-toon – A Powerful Cree Chief Who Found the Truth

LTRP Note: In the spring of 2011, Lighthouse Trails published Stories From Indian Wigwams and Northern Campfires. The book, written by Egerton Ryerson Young, an itinerate preacher and missionary to the Canadian Native Americans in the late 1800s, is a fascinating…

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Shamanism or Cutting-Edge Christianity?

By David Dombrowski Editor at Lighthouse Trails Publishing & Research I find it rather interesting how God has orchestrated things in life, which demonstrate His great love and ongoing mercy to ordinary people like myself. But, more specifically, I am…

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A Native American Who Wished to Leave the “Old Way” and Follow the Christian Way

Written in the late 1800s by Egerton Ryerson Young (author of Stories from Indian Wigwams and Northern Campfires) I was interrupted one day while sitting in my study by the quiet entrance of a stalwart Indian whom I had not…

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