A study of cultural encounter, this book takes a fresh look at the much ignored and often misunderstood experience of Christian Indians in early America. Focusing on New England missionary settlements from the mid-seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries, Hilary E. Wyss examines the ways in which Native American converts to Christianity developed their own distinct identity within the context of a colonial culture. With an approach that weaves together literature, religious studies, and ethno-history, Wyss grounds her work in the analysis of a rarely read body of \"autobiographical\" writings by Christian Indians, including letters, journal entries, and religious confessions. She then juxtaposes these documents to the writings of better known Native Americans like Samson Occom as well as to the published works of Anglo-Americans, such as Mary Rowlandson's famous captivity narrative and Eleazor Wheelock's accounts of his charity schools. In their search for ostensibly \"authentic\" Native voices, scholars have tended to overlook the writings of Christian Indians. Yet, Wyss argues, these texts reveal the emergence of a dynamic Native American identity through Christianity. More specifically, they show how the active appropriation of New England Protestantism contributed to the formation of a particular Indian identity that resisted colonialism by using its language against itself.

Writing Indians: Literacy, Christianity, and Native Community in Early America@@@The Brainerd Journal: A Mission to the Cherokees, 1817-1823

i Acknowledgements iii Illustrations vii Abbreviations viii Chapter One: Thinking about Land and Place in Eighteenth-Century Algonquian 1 New England Chapter Two: ‘They Thought their way was good, and that they had no reason to 39 alter it’: Land, Community, and Sacred Power before the Great Awakening Chapter Three: ‘That they be able to Live near together’ and ‘attend the 86 preaching of the Word of God’: Land, Spiritual Power, and the Great Awakening Chapter Four: ‘To save their substance that they may live together’: Language, 136 Literacy, and Schooling following the Great Awakening Chapter Five: To ‘hold their Lands as they would their Lives’: Algonquians 182 among the Haudenosaunee Chapter Six: ‘This Evening had a meeting here’: Community, Place, and the 237 Inter-Village Network of Faith Chapter Seven: ‘The times are exceedingly altered, yea the times are turned 280 upside down’: Relocation, Land, and Community at the End of the Eighteenth Century Conclusion: We are ‘determined to go forward’: Land, Community, and Faith 328 in the New Republic

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