Biography of William Duncan, an Anglican missionary who established a "model Christian village" among the Tsimshian people of Metlakahtla (that is, Metlakatla), Annette Island, southern Alaska. In this settlement, Duncan attempted to eradicate Indigenous customs and religious rites. After a disagreement with the Bishop of Caledonia, Duncan and a group of Tsimshian followers established a new Metlakatla site in 1887, where Duncan died in 1918. His reports to the Federal and Provincial governments on his experiences in Metlakatla "articulated 'a new kind of assimilationist policy that would inform, at least in part, the Indian Act that was passed' in 1876, an Act which 'became the legal foundation for the state's organized assault on Indigenous lifeways' through Canada's Residential School system" (adapted from The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871).