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

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Bibliographic Details
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. Electronic books.
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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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