Introduction : Indian and Christian
The river god and the lieutenant
Covenants, contracts, and the founding of Stockbridge
The chief and the orator
Moravian missionaries of the blood
Mohican men and Jesus as Manitou
The village matriarch and the young mother
Mohican women and the community of the blood
The dying chief and the accidental missionary
Indian and white bodies politic at Stockbridge
Irony and identity
The cooper and the sachem
Epilogue : real and ideal Indians.