TY - BOOK AU - Wheeler,Rachel M. TI - To live upon hope: Mohicans and missionaries in the eighteenth-century Northeast SN - 9780801463488 (electronic bk.) AV - E99.S8 W54 2008eb U1 - 974.4/004973449 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press KW - Moravian Church KW - Missions KW - New York (State) KW - Shekomeko Site KW - History KW - 18th century KW - Stockbridge Indians KW - Massachusetts KW - Stockbridge KW - Moravian Indians KW - Mahican Indians KW - Congregational churches KW - HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775) KW - bisacsh KW - HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General KW - HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) KW - HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) KW - Stockbridge (Mass.) KW - Shekomeko Site (N.Y.) KW - Ethnic relations KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/id/10468035 UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt7z92k UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=671635 ER -