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Author Wheeler, Rachel M.

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

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 316 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
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.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Moravian Church -- Missions -- New York (State) -- Shekomeko Site -- History -- 18th century.
Moravian Church -- Missions -- New York (State) -- Shekomeko Site -- History -- 18th century.
Stockbridge Indians -- Missions -- Massachusetts -- Stockbridge -- History -- 18th century.
Stockbridge Indians -- Missions.
Massachusetts -- Stockbridge.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Moravian Indians -- Missions -- New York (State) -- Shekomeko Site -- History -- 18th century.
Moravian Indians -- Missions.
New York (State) -- Shekomeko Site.
Mahican Indians -- Missions -- History -- 18th century.
Mahican Indians.
Missions.
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Massachusetts -- Stockbridge -- History -- 18th century.
Congregational churches -- Missions.
Congregational churches.
Civil war -- Religious aspects -- Congregational churches.
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.
Other Form: Print version: Wheeler, Rachel M. To live upon hope. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008 (DLC) 2007050005
ISBN 9780801463488 (electronic book)
0801463483 (electronic book)
9780801446313 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0801446317 (cloth ; alkaline paper)