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To live upon hope Mohicans and missionaries in the eighteenth-century Northeast /

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Main Author: Wheeler, Rachel M.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Moravian Church > Missions > New York (State) > Shekomeko Site > History > 18th century.
Stockbridge Indians > Missions > Massachusetts > Stockbridge > History > 18th century.
Moravian Indians > Missions > New York (State) > Shekomeko Site > History > 18th century.
Mahican Indians > Missions > History > 18th century.
Congregational churches > Missions > Massachusetts > Stockbridge > History > 18th century.
Stockbridge (Mass.) > History > 18th century.
Shekomeko Site (N.Y.) > History > 18th century.
Stockbridge (Mass.) > Ethnic relations.
Shekomeko Site (N.Y.) > Ethnic relations.
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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.

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