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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.Description: xiii, 316 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 974.4/004973449 22
LOC classification:
  • E99.S8 W54 2008
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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.
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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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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