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

Title: To live upon hope [electronic resource] : Mohicans and missionaries in the eighteenth-century Northeast / Rachel Wheeler.
Author: Wheeler, Rachel M.
Publication: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.

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1 online resource (xiii, 316 p.) : ill., maps.

Uniform Title

To live upon hope (Online)

Alternative Title

To live upon hope (Online)

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.

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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.

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