Thursday, November 27, 2008

Thanksgiving....a little historical perspective

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Marge Bruchac , is an Abanaki Indian and a professional museum consultant. A few months ago I received something she wrote in 1998 and post...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform

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Parts of William G. McLoughlin's book, Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform: An Essay on Religion and Social Change in America, 1607-1977 ...
Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Blue-eyed Indian

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Aside from some of the standard stereotypes and assumptions, most non-Indians really don't know much about today's American Indians....
Monday, November 24, 2008

The Indians of Lenapehoking

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Titles and names of groups can be confusing or misleading. One example: The Stockbridge-Munsee Indians. In spoken communication, people ofte...
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Sunday, November 23, 2008

Brothertown, New York, 1785-1796

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Although Samson Occom is the most famous of the Brothertown Indians, he was not their most powerful leader, in fact, in the last year or t...
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Saturday, November 22, 2008

Occom's "Short Narrative of My Life"

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Samson Occom wrote a brief (26 pages) autobiography in 1768 and a much-briefer one (only one page) in1765. His motivation for writing (hist...
Thursday, November 20, 2008

The Puritan Mind

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We won't fully understand the "Red Puritans," until we understand the white ones. I will now quote from Herbert Wallace Schnei...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008

The Panoplist, (October, 1818)

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If you know the history of the Stockbridge Mohicans, you know that they had to make a number of moves. Very briefly, I will mention the plan...
Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Occom's Preaching

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Samson Occom is unquestionably one of the biggest heroes of Algonkian Church History. According to Colin Calloway ( New Worlds for All, 199...
Monday, November 17, 2008

Brotherton Reservation

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After John Eliot himself, one of the most famous missionaries to the American Indians was David Brainerd. In the 1740's, Brainerd found ...
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Sunday, November 16, 2008

Stockbridge-Munsee Cultural Adaptations

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Around the same time that Ted Brasser was doing his Mohican research, another anthropologist, Marion Mochon, also conducted field research a...
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Saturday, November 15, 2008

Riding the Frontier's Crest

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There's more to the Algonkian Church History Blog than comparing the mission philosophies of various church bodies. This blog is also a...