Seneca Possessed : : Indians, Witchcraft, and Power in the Early American Republic / / Matthew Dennis.
Seneca Possessed examines the ordeal of a Native people in the wake of the American Revolution. As part of the once-formidable Iroquois Six Nations in western New York, Senecas occupied a significant if ambivalent place within the newly established United States. They found themselves the object of...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 16 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- PART I. Dominion
- Chapter 1 Colonial Crucible and Post-Revolutionary Predicament
- PART II. Spirit
- Chapter 2 Handsome Lake and the Seneca Great Awakening: Revelation and Transformation
- Chapter 3 Patriarchy and the Witch-Hunting of Handsome Lake
- PART III. Mastery
- Chapter 4 Friendly Mission: The Holy Conversation of Quakers and Senecas
- Chapter 5 From Longhouse to Farmhouse: Quakers and the Transformation of Seneca Rural Life
- Chapter 6 Seneca Repossessed, 1818-1826
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments