To live upon hope : Mohicans and missionaries in the eighteenth-century Northeast / Rachel Wheeler.

Author/creator Wheeler, Rachel M.
Format Book
Publication InfoIthaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
Descriptionxiii, 316 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [255]-308) and index.
LCCN 2007050005
ISBN9780801446313 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0801446317 (cloth : alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks E 99.S8 W54 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold