 | To Live upon Hope: Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast Subjects: Stockbridge Indians -- Missions -- Massachusetts -- Stockbridge -- History -- 18th century; Moravian Indians -- Missions -- New York (State) -- Shekomeko Site -- History -- 18th century; Mahican Indians -- Missions -- History -- 18th century; Congregation; Wheeler explores the question of what "missionary Christianity" became in the hands of two native communities in the 18th century: the Mohicans of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and the Shekomeko of Dutchess County, New York. Rachel Wheeler is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. |
