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Preservings $20 Issue No. 36, 2016 ~ A Journal of the D. F. Plett Historical Research Foundation Inc. Preservings $20 Issue No. 36, 2016 “A people who have not the pride to record their own history will not long have the virtues to make their history worth recording; and no people who are indifferent to their past need hope to make their future great.” — Jan Gleysteen In this Issue ....................................................2 Feature Articles .............................................. 4 Family History .............................................51 Table of Contents ...........................................2 Mennonite History For Young People ..........29 Book Reviews .............................................. 70 Editorial .......................................................... 3 Articles ......................................................... 33 News............................................................. 76 In this Issue PRESERVINGS 2016 Although for most of Mennonite history separation from Table of Contents the world was the desire, Mennonites have always lived ‘in the world’. That has meant they always had neighbours, and In this Issue ............................................................................................ 2 RIWHQQHLJKERXUVZKRZHUHLQGLJHQRXV²WKH\ZHUHWKHUH¿UVW Neighbours are the theme of the feature articles in this issue. In Editorial .................................................................................................. 3 Canada, that meant indigenous peoples both during the period of settlement and thereafter. Articles by Gerhard Ens, Darren FEATURE ARTICLES: &RXUFKHQH/HRQDUG'RHOODQGDUHÀHFWLRQE\0DULD&DPSEHOO MENNONITES AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES explore that relationship. In the Russian Empire indigenous East Reserve Local History Lectures: neighbours were the nomadic Nogai and Kazakhs and Aileen Indigenous Peoples and the Land in Southeastern Manitoba Friesen provides a glimpse into those relationships. Royden Loewen points us to the rich interdependency, but separateness The Manitoba Act, the Métis and the Mennonites: of Mennonite relations with their Latino neighbours. A Tale of Two Reserves, by Gerhard J. Ens ..........................................4 The Plett Foundation has been engaged for a number of years Anishinaabe Understandings of Treaty No. 1, creating a history curriculum for Low German speaking children by Darren Courchene ...........................................................................12 and new English readers. Rosabel Fast was contracted by the Young Chippewayan Indian Reserve No. 107 and Mennonite Foundation to author a series of readers for schools in Ontario, Farmers in Saskatchewan, by Leonard Doell ......................................16 Alberta, and Manitoba. Rosabel tells us about herself and what it took to write such a history. We also have two educators, Kookoom Mariah and The Mennonite Mrs., by Maria Campbell ....... 18 0DUFHOD'XUiQDQG5RE\Q6QHDWKZKRUHYLHZWKLV¿UVWYROXPH Mennonites and ‘Whiteness’ in Latin America: A History of Other articles explore a variety of themes. Leonard Doell Religion and Race, 1913-2012, by Royden K. Loewen .......................19 tells us about the experiences of a Holdeman family facing Muslims-Mennonite Encounters in Imperial Russia, the pressures of World War II. Ralph Friesen’s article takes by Aileen Friesen ................................................................................ 23 us into the cultural and religious rituals and sensibilities that guided Kleine Gemeinde Mennonites when death came. Al- MENNONITE HISTORY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE bert Siemens opens for us the details of the almost mythical Brown hotel along the Post Road of the early West Reserve in Creating a Series of Mennonite History Readers for Young People, Manitoba. We are very excited here at the Foundation to be by Rosabel Fast ....................................................................................29 a part of the creation of a new study center in Manitoba. My Reviews: Leaving Canada ......................................................... 31 VKRUWDUWLFOH¿OOVLQVRPHRIWKHGHWDLOVRIWKLVQHZ&HQWHUIRU Transnational Mennonite Studies. ARTICLES 7KHLVVXH¶V¿QDOVHFWLRQKDVWKUHHYHU\GLIIHUHQWDQGLQ some ways unique, family histories. Arlette Kouwenhoven Saskatchewan Holdeman Mennonites respond to WWII, by Leonard Doell ................................................................................. 33 extends the work she did in her book on the Fehr’s by follow- ing up one branch who decided to join an Amish community. School of Suffering: Views on Death and Dying in the Kleine Ralph Friesen provides context for an autobiography written Gemeinde Mennonite Tradtion, by Ralph Friesen ...............................39 by Maria Dueck Reimer Loewen. Finally a very interesting William Brown, Innkeeper of the Post Road 1880-1894, autobiography of the West Prussian Mennonite, David Man- by Albert Siemens ................................................................................ 44 dtler, gives us a window into the world of Prussian Mennonites A New Centre for Studying Mennonites across Borders, around the time of the emigration to Russia. Glenn Penner and by Hans Werner ....................................................................................50 Ed Enns collaborated to bring us the the translation from the German version published by Gustav Reimer in the 1940s. FAMILY HISTORY ,WLVRXUKRSHDVDOZD\VWKDW\RXZLOO¿QGHQMR\PHQWDQGQHZ insight from the stories our writers so generously provide for us. The Fehrs on the move again. From Old Order Mennonite to New Order Amish, by Arlette Kouwenhoven ...............................................51 Hans Werner, editor Maria Dueck Reimer Loewen: “Ab Dueck’s Mitschje”, ur Cover conveys the rich interaction of Mennonites by Ralph Friesen .................................................................................. 57 Oand their neighbours. The photo of the Old Colony man Autobiography of David Mantler 1757 – 1837, with his Tiahumara wife and son is from: Linda Guizar Ponce, by Gustav Reimer, Ed Enns, Glenn Penner ......................................... 62 https://plus.google.com. The photo of the signing of the M.O.U. between Lutherans, Mennonites and the Young Chippewayan BOOK REVIEWS ...................................................................70 representatives in 2006 is courtesy of Leonard Doell. The map is from the collection of the Mennonite Library and Archives, NEWS .......................................................................................76 Newton, KS. Preservings, a journal of the D.F. Plett Historical Research Foundation, Inc., is published annually. Preservings is edited by: Hans Werner, 1.204.786.9352, [email protected]. The annual subscription fee is $20.00, and cheques should be made out to the D. F. Plett Historical Research Foundation, and mailed to Hans Werner, D. F. Plett Historical Research Foundation, Inc., University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Ave., Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2E9. Reader responses are welcome. Please send manuscripts, articles, and/or photographs to the above address at the University of Winnipeg. Our mission is to inform our readers about Mennonite history, and in particular to promote a respectful understanding and appreciation of the contribution made by the so-called conservatives. 2 - Preservings No. 36, 2016 by Hans Werner Editorial Editor I began these thoughts when I received an email from a watch it. The best for all concerned is if would fade quietly into researcher for the upcoming CBC series that will air in Janu- the dustbin, or in this case the trash bin on someone’s computer. ary 2017 called Pure. According to the CBC announcement The request from the series researcher raised for me the the series will follow “a newly-elected Mennonite pastor as GLI¿FXOWSUREOHPIDFHGE\WKRVHZKRIHHOWKHFDOOWROLYHDQG KHLQ¿OWUDWHVWKHµ0HQQRPRE¶LQDQHIIRUWWRWDNHGRZQD ‘be’ in the world, but not to be ‘of’ it. The problem is again SRZHUIXOGUXJWUDI¿FNLQJRSHUDWLRQLQWKHFRPPXQLW\´7KH before me as I put down these thoughts on the morning after ‘Menno mob’ is, of course, a reference to Mennonites from the United States election that has put Donald Trump into Mexico involved in the drug trade. The researcher’s request the White House. During the ugly campaign that preceded was for someone with Low German knowledge who would the result now before us, I have wondered out loud about the translate for them. It was not clear from his email whether GLI¿FXOW\$PHULFDQ&KULVWLDQVZHUHIDFLQJ7KHUHDUHWKRVH WKLVZDVWRWUDQVODWHRQ¿OPGLDORJXHWKHWUDQVODWLRQRILQWHU- claiming Christianity who simply cannot see their way to sup- views, or documents, or...? I had already been forewarned that porting a candidate, Hillary Clinton in this case, that supports this request was circulating in Ontario and was not surprised abortion and embraces LGBTQ identities. There are those, also that it landed in my email inbox. 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