Peter Edmund Jones

Peter Edmund Jones M.D. (30 October 1843 – 29 June 1909) was a Mississauga Ojibwa chief of New Credit. In Ojibwe he was called Kahkewaquonaby, named after his father in two languages.

The third child of Peter Jones and Eliza Field, Jones was born in London, Canada West. He was raised at the Muncey Mission, and later Brantford. He was educated first by his governess, and later at Brantford Grammar School. Although one quarter indigenous in heritage, he was raised in a largely Western fashion. Jones, who attended medical school initially at the Toronto School of Medicine and then at Queen's College, he obtained a medical degree from Queen's in 1866. He is the first known Status Indian to obtain such a degree in Canada. The journal was distributed on Indian reserves across Ontario.

Like his father, Jones lived across the cultural gap between the whites of Canada and the indigenous people of the land. He married an English woman, Charlotte Dixon, but intended to raise any children as Ojibwe. His cousin George Henry attempted to dislodge him as the New Credit band's doctor on the grounds that he was only one-quarter First Nation, but failed. Jones practiced taxidermy, which was uncommon among First Nations, and was an avid chess player. But he also refused to relinquish his Indian status, a practice that was encouraged by the Indian Department for educated indigenous individuals. Printed in Hagersville, Ontario, the paper ran for twenty-four issues between December 1885 and December 1886. Its masthead described it as "a newspaper devoted to the interests of the Indians of Canada", reflecting Jones's aim of addressing Indigenous concerns within a wider national discussion.

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