Mohicans and missionaries in the eighteenth-century Northeast Wheeler, Rachel M. creator text bibliography Electronic books. nyu Ithaca Cornell University Press 2008 monographic eng

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1 online resource (xiii, 316 p.) : ill., maps 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. Rachel Wheeler. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-us-ma n-us-ny 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 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) E99.S8 W54 2008eb 974.4/004973449 Wheeler, Rachel M. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008 (DLC) 2007050005 9780801463488 (electronic bk.) 0801463483 (electronic bk.) 22573/ctt4rwmg JSTOR http://site.ebrary.com/id/10468035 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt7z92k http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=671635 http://site.ebrary.com/id/10468035 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt7z92k http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=671635 E7B 071206 20200709060022.0 ocn732957123 eng