Henry Budd
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Revd Henry Budd
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| Born | circa 1812 Norway House, Rupert's Land |
| Died | April 2, 1875 The Pas, Manitoba |
| Venerated in | Anglican Church of Canada, Episcopal Church (United States) |
| Feast | 2 April, 22 December |
Henry Budd (circa 1812 – April 2, 1875), the first Native American ordained an Anglican priest, spent his career ministering to First Nations people.
Born to Cree parents in Norway House in what was then the Red River Colony, the youth originally named Sakachuwescam was baptised and renamed Henry Budd (after his own mentor) by Anglican missionary John West in 1822. He attended the Church Missionary Society (CMS) school, which Rev. West had established in what was then known as the Red River Colony in what is now the province of Manitoba. Fellow students included James Settee and Charles Pratt (Askenootow).
Raised and educated by missionaries including West, George Harbridge and David Jones, Budd returned to the Lower Church District (later St. Andrew's) to assist his mother and sister-in-law in 1828. He took a job with the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) and ultimately married Betsy Work, daughter of a company factor. Upon completing his HBC contract, Budd and his wife bought a farm near the Red River's great rapids (a/k/a St. Andrew's). They had six children, Henry, John, Elizabeth and 3 other daughters.
In September 1830, Henry Budd began studying for ordination under Rev. West, although he would not be ordained deacon for two more decades. In 1837, Budd began teaching at the St. John's church school. In 1840, missionaries John Smithurst and William Cockran asked Budd to help them establish a mission to the Cree in the Cumberland House District. Budd, his wife and mother then moved to Paskoyac (later known as The Pas), where they worked with minimal church supervision until 1844. Budd tried to make the station self-supporting, introducing farming methods to the native peoples, who previously subsisted on hunting and fishing and supplemented their diet by trading furs to the Hudson's Bay Company. When English missionary James Hunter arrived at The Pas, Budd assisted him in learning the language and other matters.
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