The Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan

ISBN-13: 9780195170832 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 480 str.

Samson Occom; Joanna Brooks; Robert Warrior

Opis

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 political consciousness among the Native peoples of New England as well as Native efforts to adapt Christianity as a tool of decolonialization. Presenting previously unpublished and newly recovered writings, this collection more than doubles available Native American writing from before 1800.

Recenzje

Brooks's excellent collection is an indispensable addition to all New England, Colonial history, and Native American collections. Essential.