Saturday, November 29, 2008

Sketch of the Brothertown Indians

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The "Sketch of The Brothertown Indians" was written in 1855 by Thomas Commuck, a member of that community. It was initially publi...
Friday, November 28, 2008

The Mohican Ten Commandments

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"The Mohican Ten Commandments" is not the title of an actual document, but it refers to something much like the Ten Commandments ...
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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