To live upon hope [electronic resource] : Mohicans and missionaries in the eighteenth-century Northeast / Rachel Wheeler.
Publication details: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 316 p.) : ill., mapsISBN:- 9780801463488 (electronic bk.)
- 0801463483 (electronic bk.)
- 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)
- 974.4/004973449 22
- E99.S8 W54 2008eb
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.
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