Thirty-Three Years Among the Indians
Subtitle: The Story of Mary Sagatoo
By: by Mary Sagatoo; edited by Donna Winters.
Contributors: Palmer, Thomas A.; Winters, Donna.
Edition: Bigwater classics ed.
Series: Bigwater Classics, Vol. 1
Publisher: Bigwater Publishing
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Caledonia, MI
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780923048501
Subjects: Sagatoo, Mary.; Ojibwa Indians -- Social life and customs.; Ojibwa Indians -- Missions.; Missionaries -- Michigan -- Biography.
Other titles: Dr. Palmer's experience among the Indians during the smallpox epidemic.
Description: In 1863, a young woman in Massachusetts promised to marry a Chippewa Indian from the Saginaw Valley of Michigan. He was a minister whose mission was to bring Christianity to his people in the tiny Indian village of Saganing. Though he later became afflicted with consumption, the newlyweds arrived in Michigan. Mary Sagatoo stayed among her husband's people for 33 years, despite his death -- 33 years of struggle, hardship, humor and joy.

In 1897, the Charles A. White Company (Boston) published Ms. Sagatoo's book, Wah Sash Kay Moqua or Thirty-Three Years Among the Indians. It is fascinating not only for what it reveals about the Chippewa culture in Michigan during the late 1800s, but also for what it teaches us about the American Victorian woman, a missionary in her own right.
Notes: "Dr. Palmer's experience among the Indians during the smallpox epidemic", by Thomas A. Palmer: p. 191-209.
Originally published:  Wah Sash Kah Moqua, or Thirty-three years among the Indians. Boston : Charles A. White Co., 1897. Editorial changes to the original text by Donna Winters.