Wheeler, Rachel M.

To live upon hope Mohicans and missionaries in the eighteenth-century Northeast / [electronic resource] : Rachel Wheeler. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008. - 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.


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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.


Stockbridge (Mass.)--History--18th century.
Shekomeko Site (N.Y.)--History--18th century.
Stockbridge (Mass.)--Ethnic relations.
Shekomeko Site (N.Y.)--Ethnic relations.


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