The collected writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan : leadership and literature in eighteenth-century Native America / edited by Joanna Brooks ; foreword by Robert Warrior
This volume brings together for the first time the known writings of the pioneering Native American religious and political leader, intellectual, and author, Samson Occom (Mohegan; 1723-1792). The largest surviving archive of American Indian writing before Charles Eastman (Santee Sioux; 1858-1939), Occom's writings offer unparalleled views into a Native American intellectual and cultural universe in the era of colonialization and the early United States. His letters, sermons, journals, prose, petitions, and hymns--many of them never before published--document the emergence of pantribal politic
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-435) and index
"Individuals names in Occom's writings": pages 413-426
