To live upon hope [electronic resource] : Mohicans and missionaries in the eighteenth-century Northeast / Rachel Wheeler.
2008
E99.S8 W54 2008eb
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Title
To live upon hope [electronic resource] : Mohicans and missionaries in the eighteenth-century Northeast / Rachel Wheeler.
Author
Wheeler, Rachel M.
ISBN
9780801446313 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801446317 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801463488 (e-book)
0801446317 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801463488 (e-book)
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Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 316 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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E99.S8 W54 2008eb
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974.4/004973449
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
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.