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

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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.
Temas:
Moravian Church.
Moravian Church > Missions > New York (State) > Shekomeko Site > History > 18th century.
Stockbridge Indians > Missions.
Moravian Indians > Missions.
Missions.
Ethnic relations.
Congregational churches > Missions.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Églises congregationalistes > Missions > Massachusetts > Stockbridge > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Mahican (Indiens) > Missions > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Congregational churches > Missions > Massachusetts > Stockbridge > History > 18th century.
Mahican Indians > Missions > History > 18th century.
Moravian Indians > Missions > New York (State) > Shekomeko Site > History > 18th century.
Stockbridge Indians > Missions > Massachusetts > Stockbridge > History > 18th century.
New York (State) > Shekomeko Site.
Massachusetts > Stockbridge.
Shekomeko (N.Y. : Site archeologique) > Relations interethniques.
Shekomeko (N.Y. : Site archeologique) > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Shekomeko Site (N.Y.) > Ethnic relations.
Stockbridge (Mass.) > Ethnic relations.
Shekomeko Site (N.Y.) > History > 18th century.
Stockbridge (Mass.) > History > 18th century.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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