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Author Wheeler, Rachel M.

Title To live upon hope [electronic resource] : Mohicans and missionaries in the eighteenth-century Northeast / Rachel Wheeler.

Imprint Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xiii, 316 p. : ill., maps.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780801446313 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801446317 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780801463488 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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