Oowikapun, or, How the Gospel reached the Nelson River Indians

Oowikapun by Egerton Ryerson Young is a short novel about the influence of God during the 19th century and the Christian efforts to convert Native Americans to the Lord Jesus Christ at the time. Excerpt: «That Oowikapun was unhappy, strangely so, was evident to all in the Indian village. New thoughts deeply affecting him had in some way or other entered his mind, and he could not but show that they were producing a great change in him. The simple, quiet, monotonous life of the young Indian hunter was curiously broken in upon, and he could never be the same again. There had come a decided awakening; the circle of his vision had suddenly enlarged…»