Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans

by Szasz, Margaret Connell

• ISBN13: 9780806138619
• ISBN10: 0806138610
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-30
• Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Summary

Two indigenous cultures encounter Scottish educators iin the eighteenth century

Author Biography

Margaret Connell Szasz is Professor of History at the University of New Mexico.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 3
Land and Cultures of Gaels, Algonquians, and Iroquois	p. 15
Highlands versus Lowlands: The Creation of the Highland Line	p. 43
Scotland and the Birth of the SSPCK	p. 68
Highland Gaels and the "Shocktroops of Presbyterianism"	p. 82
The Scottish Society and Native America	p. 115
The Algonquians and Iroquois Meet the Scottish Society	p. 134
Dugald Buchanan and Samson Occom	p. 162
The Edinburgh Connection: Mohegan and Highland Gael in Scotland	p. 197
Conclusion	p. 217
Notes	p. 227
Bibliography	p. 261
Index	p. 273
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