Tolly Bradford, as an assistant professor of history at Concordia University College of Alberta, in Edmonton, wrote Prophetic Identities (UBC Press, 2012), in which two main characters, Henry Budd, a Cree missionary from western Canada, and Tiyo Soga, a Xhosa missionary from southern Africa, are portrayed not as victims of colonialism but rather as individuals who drew on faith, family and their ties to Britain to construct a new sense of indigeneity.

BOOKS:

Prophetic Identities: Indigenous Missionaries on British Colonial Frontiers, 1850-75 (UBC Press, 2012) $85.00 978-0-7748-2279-4

[BCBW, 2012]