Algonkian Church History

The Algonkian Church History Blog is about the various tribes or nations of Algonkian (or "Algonquian")-speaking Indians who voluntarily accepted Christianity. No other website is more comprehensive on the history of the Stockbridge Indians.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Menominee Confessions to Sister Mary Ignace

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A back view of St. Joseph's Boarding School, Keshena, Wisconsin. Parents didn't protest against the school overtly because they knew...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Sarah Schillinger's Case Study of the Catholic Boarding School in Keshena, Wisconsin

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B efore multiculturalism caught on, the United States was known as a melting pot, meaning that people from many ethnic or national backgroun...
Sunday, October 25, 2009

Samson Occom's Last Days

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W hile they lived in the Massachusetts mission town, all the Stockbridge Indians were members of a single congregation. Soon after their mov...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

The Split Between Occom and Sergeant

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Y ou may remember that both Samson Occom and John Sergeant [Jr.] received calls to minister to the Stockbridge Mohicans towards the end of ...
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Friday, October 16, 2009

Occom and Sergeant: Was their Conflict About Race?

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W e're up to the point where both Samson Occom and John Sergeant [Jr.] had received legitimate calls to minister to the Stockbridge Mohi...
Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Samson Occom and John Sergeant Jr

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A photo of present-day Madison County, New York (courtesy of Carleen Vandezande) . W hile it could be said that the white Calvinist establis...
Friday, October 9, 2009

Bernd Peyer's "The Betrayal of Samson Occom"

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B ernd Peyer is a German Historian who wrote a good article about Samson Occom which appeared in the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine in 1998. For...

New Book: The Munsee Indians

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A new book about the Munsees is coming out next month. Few people know that the Munsees were the Indians who sold the island of Manhattan t...
Tuesday, October 6, 2009

The Stockbridge Bible is Returned and Comes Home

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My series of posts on the Stockbridge Bible is coming to an end. Before we come to the final chapter, here's a brief summary of the seri...
Saturday, October 3, 2009

The Abenaki and Their Missionaries: Solidarity of Kin

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T he Stockbridges and Brothertowns are far from being the only Algonkians who had a positive experience with their missionaries. Here's ...
Thursday, October 1, 2009

What Will it Take to get the Stockbridge Bible Back?

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Y ears had gone by since the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians first asked The Trustees of Reservations to return their tribal Bibl...
Monday, September 28, 2009

Fight for the Stockbridge Bible: The Long Standoff

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This photo of Mabel Choate's inscription in the Stockbridge Bible was taken by Jeff Siemers , in October, 2003, with the permission of...
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