The Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan

Portada
Oxford University Press, 2006 M11 9 - 480 páginas
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 Presenting previously unpublished and newly recovered writings, this collection more than doubles available Native American writing from before 1800.
 

Contenido

A Note on the Texts
Abbreviations
PROSE
Tribes in this Great Continent 1783
To Eleazar Wheelock January 14 1760
To Robert Keen September 27 1768
To the Trustees of Easthampton Long Island 1784?
PETITIONS AND TRIBAL DOCUMENTS
January 23 1786April 26 1786
June 26 1786December 10 1786
December 11 1786April 7 1787
April 6 1787July 4 1787
July 5 1787September 16 1787
December 11 1787August 10 1788
May 11 1789October 9 1789
February 21 1790March 6 1790

Mohegans to Richard Law December 5 1789
HYMNS
JOURNALS
December 5 1785December 14 1785
Individuals Named in Occoms Writings
Bibliography
Index
Derechos de autor

Otras ediciones - Ver todas

Términos y frases comunes

Acerca del autor (2006)

Joanna Brooks is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native-American Literatures (Oxford, 2003), winner of the 2003 Modern Language Association William Sanders Scarborough Prize for best book in African-American literature and culture. Robert Warrior is Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor at the University of Oklahoma. His books include The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction, American Indian Literary Nationalism, and Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions.

Información bibliográfica