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

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Bibliografische gegevens
Hoofdauteur: Wheeler, Rachel M.
Coauteur: ebrary, Inc
Formaat: Elektronisch E-boek
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
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Inhoudsopgave:
  • 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.