[PDF.15vv] To Live upon Hope: Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast

To Live upon Hope: Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast

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 | #2218529 in Books |  2013-01-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.90 x.80 x5.90l,.95 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Great Book!|By MH|This book is a book that I'm glad is in my bookcase so I can read and enjoy it again and again. Most books treat Christian missionaries with disdain and their converts as simpletons or tools but not this book! The Native American converts are so human and real and seeking a way to deal with the hardships of life and seeking the ultimate fellowship that one can| || "Behind the mythology of The Last of the Mohicans and recent revisionist accounts, Native and otherwise, that regard the Christian mission to the Indians as an unmitigated disaster, there lies a tangled and often deeply moving tale, well told by Rachel Whee

Two Northeast Indian communities with similar histories of colonization accepted Congregational and Moravian missionaries, respectively, within five years of one another: the Mohicans of Stockbridge, Massachusetts (1735), and Shekomeko, in Dutchess County, New York (1740). In To Live upon Hope, Rachel Wheeler explores the question of what "missionary Christianity" became in the hands of these two native communities.

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