To live upon hope Mohicans and missionaries in the eighteenth-century Northeast / [electronic resource] :
Rachel Wheeler.
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 316 p.) : ill., maps
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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. HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775) HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Stockbridge (Mass.)--History--18th century. Shekomeko Site (N.Y.)--History--18th century. Stockbridge (Mass.)--Ethnic relations. Shekomeko Site (N.Y.)--Ethnic relations.