<p>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 and learned he hadn’t long to live, his betrothed would not release him from his promise of marriage. Soon after the newlyweds arrived in Michigan, this Chippewa Indian extracted a deathbed promise from his wife.  “Mary … will you stay with my people, take my place among them, and try to do for them what I would have done if God had spared my life?” Joseph asked, caressing her hand.  “Oh, Joseph, don’t leave me,” she begged, “It is so lonesome here!”  “Please make the promise and I shall die happier. Jesus will help you keep it,” he said with shortened breath.  Seeing the look of earnestness in Joseph’s dark eyes, Mary replied, “I will do as you wish.”  Thus began a remarkable woman’s thirty-three years among a people about which she knew nothing—years of struggle, hardship, humor, and joy.</p>

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