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To live upon hope Mohicans and missionaries in the eighteenth-century Northeast
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To live upon hope [electronic resource] : Mohicans and missionaries in the eighteenth-century Northeast / Rachel Wheeler.
ISBN
9780801463488
0801463483
9780801446313 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801446317 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 316 p. :) ill., maps ;
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE – UPCC 2017 Archive Complete Supplement V.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 20, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-308) and index.
Contents
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.
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