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

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

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Wheeler, Rachel,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
©2012
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 2 maps, 9 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Maps and Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction: Indian and Christian
  • Part I. Hope
  • 2. The River God and the Lieutenant
  • 3. Covenants, Contracts, and the Founding of Stockbridge
  • Part II. Renewal
  • 4. The Chief and the Orator
  • 5. Moravian Missionaries of the Blood
  • 6. Mohican Men and Jesus as Manitou
  • Part III. Preservation
  • 7. The Village Matriarch and the Young Mother
  • 8. Mohican Women and the Community of the Blood
  • Part IV. Persecution
  • 9. The Dying Chief and the Accidental Missionary
  • 10. Indian and White Bodies Politic at Stockbridge
  • Conclusion
  • 11. Irony and Identity
  • 12. The Cooper and the Sachem
  • 13. Epilogue: Real and Ideal Indians
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Index

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