To live upon hope : Mohicans and missionaries in the eighteenth-century Northeast / / Rachel Wheeler.
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 316 p. :; ill., maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.