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To Do Good to My Indian Brethren
Joseph Johnson
其他書名
The Writings of Joseph Johnson, 1751-1776
出版
University of Massachusetts Press
, 1998
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Religious
Biography & Autobiography / Educators
Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Indigenous
History / Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
History / United States / State & Local / General
History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Literary Collections / Essays
Literary Criticism / American / General
Literary Criticism / Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies
ISBN
1558491260
9781558491267
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=dhd1AAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
This book brings together the writings of Joseph Johnson, a Mohegan Indian preacher, schoolteacher, and leader of the movement to relocate eastern Christian Indians to "Brotherton" in upper New York state. Johnson's diaries, written between 1771 and 1773, document daily life in the Indian Christian communities of Mohegan and Farmington, Connecticut, with a remarkable richness and intimacy. His letters - to his teacher, Eleazar Wheelock, and other white benefactors, as well as to his fellow Native Americans - reveal both an uncommon talent for diplomacy and a powerful vision of Indian solidarity. Commentary by Laura J. Murray illuminates the meaning of Johnson's writings in their historical context. One essay traces the cultural changes and political conflicts at Mohegan in the generations before Johnson's; other essays illuminate the rhetorical challenges Johnson faced as a literate Indian in the eighteenth century.