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Tsimshian tribes based in Lax Kw'alaams. His mother was Mrs. Elizabeth Lawson (d. 1903), who held the hereditary name Diiks and was also known as Elizabeth Diex. Alfred was of mixed Native and white ancestry, his father having been Félix Dudoire/Dudouaire, a French Canadian
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Simpson. He succeeded to his maternal uncle Paul Sgagweet's hereditary name-title Sgagweet in 1887 upon his uncle's death, in accordance with the rules of matrilineal succession. This established him as chief of the Gitando tribe.
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Dudoward's own mother
Elizabeth Diex was referred to by one missionary as "the mother of Methodism among the Tsimpshean tribes." Diex was converted to Christianity in Victoria in 1873 during a mass revival targeting
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Dudoward had no (matrilineal) heirs and so adopted his own son and a niece into the House of
Sgagweet in order to perpetuate the line. The son inherited the name Sgagweet and held it in 1938, when the anthropologist
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After returning home, Kate and Alfred organized religious instruction in Lax Kw'alaams and lobbied the
Methodist church to establish a mission there, which they eventually did, in 1874 under the Rev.
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Christianity led Crosby to suspend the Dudowards' membership in the church several times, until finally the Dudowards quit and joined the
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people for conversion. When her son, Alfred
Dudoward, arrived in a large war canoe to express his displeasure at this mass conversion, he soon converted as well.
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recorded the house's order of succession. He had designated the niece's son as his successor.
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Thomas Crosby and the Tsimshian: Small Shoes for Feet Too Large.
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Garfield, Viola E. (1939) "Tsimshian Clan and Society."
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Afterword by Caroline Dudoward. Vancouver: UBC Press.
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