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To live upon hope : Mohicans and missionaries in the eighteenth-century Northeast
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- Creator
- Rachel Wheeler
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 316 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0801463483, 9780801463488, 9780801446313, 0801446317, 1322505586
- OCLC
- ocn732957123, ocn183609717, ocn966768655, ocn979577329
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-308) and index.
- Introduction : Indian and Christian -- The river god and the lieutenant -- Covenants, contracts, and the founding of Stockbridge -- The chief and the orator -- Moravian missionaries of the blood -- Mohican men and Jesus as Manitou -- The village matriarch and the young mother -- Mohican women and the community of the blood -- The dying chief and the accidental missionary -- Indian and white bodies politic at Stockbridge -- Irony and identity -- The cooper and the sachem -- Epilogue : real and ideal Indians
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.