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Kahgegagahbowh (George Copway), Anishinaabe author

A hand-coloured portrait of Kahgegagahbowh (George Copway), about 1860 (Library of Congress).
A hand-coloured portrait of Kahgegagahbowh (George Copway), about 1860 (Library of Congress). Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh - G. Copway LCCN98519233 · Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) · Photo source · Photo licence: Public domain. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.
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Kahgegagahbowh (George Copway, 1818–1869), a Mississauga Anishinaabe author, lecturer and activist, gained international literary celebrity for popular non-fiction books in the late 1840s and early 1850s. His writing and lectures gave readers in Canada and abroad insight into Mississauga spirituality, history and culture, and he spoke for Indigenous peoples at the 1850 Peace Congress in Frankfurt.

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His literary and public career, not a full biography.

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