Title The collected writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan : leadership and literature in eighteenth-century Native America / edited by Joanna Brooks ; foreword by Robert Warrior

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 445 pages) Contents A Note on the Texts; Chronology; Abbreviations; "This Indian World": An Introduction to the Writings of Samson Occom; PROSE; LETTERS; PETITIONS AND TRIBAL DOCUMENTS; SERMONS; HYMNS; JOURNALS; Individuals Named in Occom's Writings; Bibliography; Index Summary 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 Notes Print version record Subject Occom, Samson, 1723-1792 -- Diaries Occom, Samson, 1723-1792 -- Correspondence Occom, Samson, 1723-1792 Mohegan Indians -- Biography Indian civic leaders -- New England -- Biography Indian religious leaders -- New England -- Biography Preaching -- Early works to 1800 Indians of North America -- Missions -- New England Indians of North America -- New England -- Religion Indian civic leaders. Indian religious leaders. Indians of North America -- Missions. Indians of North America -- Religion. Mohegan Indians. Preaching. New England. Genre/Form Biographies. Diaries. Early works. Personal correspondence. Form Electronic book Author Brooks, Joanna, 1971- ISBN 0195346882 9780195346886

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