Early Native Literacies in New England

by Bross, Kristina; Wyss, Hilary E.

• ISBN13: 9781558496477
• ISBN10: 1558496475
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr

Summary

An introduction to the rich heritage of early Native literary culture in New England.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The Mohegans	p. 15
"Letter of Instruction from Oanhekoe, Sachem of the Mohegan Indians in New England, 14 July 1703"	p. 19
"Letter of Instruction from Oanhekoe, Sachem of the Mohegan Indians, 14 July 1703"	p. 21
"Diary, 1773"	p. 28
"Joseph Johnson's Diary, Farmington, Connecticut, 18 November 1772 to 1 February 1773"	p. 42
"Mohegan Wood-Splint Basket"	p. 51
"The Cultural Work of a Mohegan Painted Basket"	p. 52
"Temperance and Morality Sermon"	p. 57
"Samson Occom and the Sermonic Tradition"	p. 63
"Title Pages from Samson Occom's Sermon Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul"	p. 72
"Samson Occom and Native Print Literacy"	p. 75
The Narragansetts	p. 84
"The Case of Sarah Pharaoh"	p. 86
"The Dreadful Case of Sarah Pharaoh: Finding Native Women's Voices in an Eighteenth-Century Infanticide Case"	p. 88
"Letter to Eleazer Wheelock, 1769"	p. 93
"Writing Back to Wheelock: One Young Woman's Response to Colonial Christianity"	p. 96
Natick	p. 105
"Confession Narrative, 1656"	p. 108
"Temptation in the Wilderness: Ponampam's Confession"	p. 110
"Natick Indian Petition, 1748"	p. 119
"'Our Old and Valluable Liberty': A Natick Indian Petition in Defense of Their Fishing Rights, 1748"	p. 123
The Pequots	p. 130
"Pequot Medicine Bundle"	p. 132
"Bundles, Bears, and Bibles: Interpreting Seventeenth-Century Native 'Texts'"	p. 132
"The Confession and Dying Warning of Katherine Garret"	p. 142
"Seeing Other Wise: Reading a Pequot Execution Narrative"	p. 148
The Wampanoags	p. 162
"Mittark's Will, 1681/1703"	p. 164
"'We Chief Men Say This': Wampanoag Memory, English Authority, and the Contest over Mittark's Will"	p. 166
"The Hannit Family, in Experience Mayhew's Indian Converts"	p. 174
"Tradition and Innovation in a Colonial Wampanoag Family from Martha's Vineyard"	p. 191
Intertribal Conversations	p. 198
"Pictograph Image on a 1725 Treaty" (Wabanaki)	p. 201
"Reading Expressions of Identity on a 1725 Peace and Friendship Treaty"	p. 201
"Montaukett Petition, 1788"	p. 213
"'This Indian World': A Petition/Origin Story from Samson Occom (Mohegan) and the Montaukett Tribe"	p. 215
Hendrick Aupaumut (Mahican/Stockbridge), A Short narration of my last Journey to the western Contry	p. 223
"Historical Introduction to Hendrick Aupaumut's Short Narration"	p. 237
"Hendrick Aupaumut and the Cultural Middle Ground"	p. 242
Bibliography	p. 251
Contributors	p. 269
Index	p. 273
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