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About 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 at the University of Toronto and Queen's College, obtained a Medical Doctorate in 1866.
- He is the first known Status Indian to obtain such a degree in Canada.After obtaining his medical degree, Jones moved to Hagersville, Ontario and set up a practice in New Credit.
- Jones became involved in politics, both on the reserve and off.
- He was elected a chief of New Credit from 1874–1877, and 1880-1886.
- He developed connections in the Conservative Party of Canada, where he argued for more Native rights and more Native control over their affairs.
- Unsuccessful in this, he did receive an appointment as the Indian Agent for New Credit in 1887, which he held until 1896.Jones edited The Indian, a journal for indigenous people.
- The journal was published in 1885-1886, and ran a total of 24 issues.
- It was the first Canadian journal for indigenous people edited by an indigenous person.
- 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.Jones died in Hagersville, Ontario in 1909.
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