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.

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Alfred Cave Describes Handsome Lake's 2nd Vision

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Alfred Cave's Prophets of the Great Spirit: Native American Revitalization Movements in Eastern North America is a remarkable book. I a...
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Monday, March 12, 2012

The Dawes Act: Was it Good for Indians?

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Blogger's note: March 19/2012 - I can understand that some peopole are too busy to read a whole blogpost - especially if they think th...
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Thursday, March 1, 2012

Ohio 1818: "The most interesting day in this place"

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T hanks to the Google Books digitization project, a lot of old material is available to people like me who don't live near the librari...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

The Dawes Act: A Guest Post

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The following is a guest post by Scott Seaborne , a reader of the blog. The views exppressed are his and I may chime in on this topic in a ...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Brothertown Drum Returns to Annual Fond du Lac Event

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I haven't kept in touch with any of my Brothertown contacts. The last I'd heard was that they were denied recognition by the United...
Friday, February 10, 2012

Commuck's Indian Melodies

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I n routine searches for data about the Brothertown Indians an item known as Indian Melodies by Thomas Commuck (himself a Brothertown), ha...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Who Taught the Stockbridge Indians to Moon?

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Y es, you read that title correctly, if you were thinking of "Mooning" as the pulling down of one's pants to expose one's ...
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Friday, January 13, 2012

Your Comments and My Posts

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With over 270 posts, it can be somewhat of a challenge to find what you want in the Algonkian Church History blog. A number of comments that...
Friday, January 6, 2012

Our Mother Tongues: A Recommended Site for Native Languages

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I've recommended other Native language websites before. However, the Our Mother Tongues site succeeds in a way that no other sites have...
Monday, December 5, 2011

Leif Erikson and the Possibility of Christianity in America circa 1000 A.D.

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This statue of Lief Erikson is located near the state capitol building in St. Paul, Minnesota. T hanks to my recent posts about the Walum Ol...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

More About the Walam Olum

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I n my last post I conceded that the Walam Olum (also known by other spellings) is not regarded as an authentic Delaware or Lenape document...
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Thursday, November 3, 2011

The Walum Olum: Authentic or Fake?

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The image you see below is an artist's interpretation that borrows heavily from the Walum Olum. This particular pictograph and the word...
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