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

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wheeler, Rachel M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
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.
Table of 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.