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To live upon hope : Mohicans and missionaries in the eighteenth-century Northeast
- Title
- To live upon hope : Mohicans and missionaries in the eighteenth-century Northeast / Rachel Wheeler.
- Author
- Wheeler, Rachel M.
- Publication
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 316 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Moravian Church > Missions > History > New York (State) > Shekomeko Site > 18th century
- Stockbridge Indians > Missions > History > Massachusetts > Stockbridge > 18th century
- Moravian Indians > Missions > History > New York (State) > Shekomeko Site > 18th century
- Mahican Indians > Missions > History > 18th century
- Congregational churches > Missions > History > Massachusetts > Stockbridge > 18th century
- Stockbridge (Mass.) > History > 18th century
- Shekomeko Site (N.Y.) > History > 18th century
- Stockbridge (Mass.) > Ethnic relations
- Shekomeko Site (N.Y.) > Ethnic relations
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-308) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JGD 08-180
- ISBN
- 9780801446313 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0801446317 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007050005
- 40015478980
- OCLC
- 183609717
- Author
- Wheeler, Rachel M.
- Title
- To live upon hope : Mohicans and missionaries in the eighteenth-century Northeast / Rachel Wheeler.
- Imprint
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-308) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40015478980
- Research Call Number
- JGD 08-180