The collected writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan

The collected writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan

leadership and literature in eighteenth-century Native America

by Samson Occom
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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Presenting previously unpublished and newly recovered writings, this collection more than doubles available Native American writing from before 1800.

Format
445 pages, Hardcover
First published
2006
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Subjects
Occom·Samson·1723-1792·Diaries·Occom·Samson·1723-1792·Correspondence·Mohegan indians·Biography·Indian civic leaders·New england·Biography·Indian religious leaders·New england·Biography·Preaching·Early works to
Language
English

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