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To Live upon Hope : Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast /

Two Northeast Indian communities with similar histories of colonization accepted Congregational and Moravian missionaries, respectively, within five years of one another: the Mohicans of Stockbridge, Massachusetts (1735), and Shekomeko, in Dutchess County, New York (1740). In To Live upon Hope, Rach...

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Autor principal: Wheeler, Rachel M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Introduction : Indian and Christian -- pt. 1. Hope: The river god and the lieutenant ; Covenants, contracts, and the founding of Stockbridge -- pt. 2. Renewal: The chief and the orator ; Moravian missionaries of the blood ; Mohican men and Jesus as Manitou -- pt. 3. Preservation: The village matriarch and the young mother ; Mohican women and the community of the blood -- pt. 4. Persecution: The dying chief and the accidental missionary ; Indian and white bodies politic at Stockbridge -- Conclusion: Irony and identity ; The cooper and the sachem ; Epilogue : real and ideal Indians. 
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