 | Professional Indian: The American Odyssey of Eleazer Williams Subjects: Williams Eleazer 1787–1858; Mohawk Indians -- Biography; Missionaries -- Canada -- Biography; Missionaries -- United States -- Biography; Indians of North America -- Kings and rulers -- Québec -- Kahnawake -- Biography; Indians of North America -- Missi; Professional Indian tells the story of Eleazer Williams: missionary to the Mohawks, Indian confidence man, and icon of an era of dispossession and change that compelled many native peoples to refashion their identities in the wake of Anglo-American expansion. Michael Leroy Oberg is SUNY Distinguished Professor at the State University of New York at Geneseo and the author of The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand: Roanoke's Forgotten Indians, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
