Summerfield, John

Nation(ality): Anishinaabe
Occupation(s): teacher

gender: man
Sahgahgewagahbaweh

Timeline


Death: 1836

Source(s):

MacLean, Hope. "A Positive Experiment in Aboriginal Education: The Methodist Ojibwa Day Schools in Upper Canada, 1824-1833." The Cdn Jnl of Native Studies, vol. 12, no.1, 2002, pp. 23-63.


Context

Parents unknkown. Hope Maclean notes "Sahgahgewagahbaweh or John Summerfield, an academically-inclined youth, attended Cazenovia and the grammar school at Belleville but died in 1836 after completing an Ojibwa grammar."