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The Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan

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  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-11-09
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

This volume brings together for the first time the known writings of the pioneering Native American religious and political leader, intellectual, and author, Samson Occom (Mohegan; 1723-1792). The largest surviving archive of American Indian writing before Charles Eastman (Santee Sioux; 1858-1939), Occom's writings offer unparalleled views into a Native American intellectual and cultural universe in the era of colonialization and the early United States. His letters, sermons, journals, prose, petitions, and hymns--many of them never before published--document the emergence of pantribal political consciousness among the Native peoples of New England as well as Native efforts to adapt Christianity as a tool of decolonialization. Presenting previously unpublished and newly recovered writings, this collection more than doubles available Native American writing from before 1800.

Author Biography


Joanna Brooks is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native-American Literatures (Oxford, 2003), winner of the 2003 Modern Language Association William Sanders Scarborough Prize for best book in African-American literature and culture. Robert Warrior is Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor at the University of Oklahoma. His books include The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction, American Indian Literary Nationalism, and Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions .

Table of Contents

A Note on the Texts xvii
Chronology xxi
Abbreviations xxvii
"This Indian World": An Introduction to the Writings of Samson Occom 3(41)
PROSE
1. Temperance Hannabal (February 7 or 9, 1754)
44(1)
2. Herbs and Roots (1754)
44(3)
3. Account of the Montauk Indians, on Long Island (1761)
47(4)
4. Autobiographical Narrative, First Draft (November 28, 1765)
51(1)
5. Autobiographical Narrative, Second Draft (September 17, 1768)
52(6)
6. "The most remarkable and Strange State Situation and Appearence of Indian Tribes in this Great Continent" (1783)
58(6)
LETTERS
1. To Solomon Williams (November 1, 1752)
64(1)
2. To "Madam" (1756)
65(1)
3. To Eleazar Wheelock (November 12, 1756)
65(1)
4. To Eleazar Wheelock (January 14, 1760)
66(1)
5. To Eleazar Wheelock (June 24, 1761)
67(1)
6. To Eleazar Wheelock (September 25, 1761)
68(1)
7. To Eleazar Wheelock (May 12, 1762)
69(1)
8. To Mary Fowler Occom (June 1, 1763)
70(1)
9. To Eleazar Wheelock (February 8, 1764)
70(1)
10. To Eleazar Wheelock (May 7, 1764)
71(1)
11. To Eleazar Wheelock (August 22, 1764)
71(1)
12. To Eleazar Wheelock (August 1764)
72(1)
13. To Eleazar Wheelock (October 4, 1765)
73(1)
14. To the Connecticut Board of Correspondents (November 21, 1765)
73(1)
15. To Eleazar Wheelock (December 6, 1765)
74(1)
16. To Nathaniel Shaw (December 17, 1765)
75(1)
17. To Samuell Buell (March 8, 1766)
76(1)
18. To Mary Fowler Occom (March II, 1766)
76(1)
19. To Eleazar Wheelock (May 30, 1766)
77(1)
20. To Mary Fowler Occom and Esther Poquiantup Fowler (1766)
78(1)
21. To Mary Fowler Occom (January 21, 1767)
78(1)
22. To Eleazar Wheelock (February 12, 1767)
79(1)
23. To Mary Fowler Occom (1767)
80(1)
24. To Mary Fowler Occom (1767)
80(1)
25. To Robert Keen (September 1768)
81(2)
26. To Robert Keen (September 27, 1768)
83(1)
27. To Eleazar Wheelock (November 12, 1768)
84(1)
28. To Eleazar Wheelock (December 28, 1768)
84(1)
29. To Robert Clelland (1768)
85(1)
30. "They don't want the Indians to go to Heaven with them" (1768)
86(1)
31. To the Connecticut Board of Correspondents of the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge (SPCK) (January 4, 1769)
87(1)
32. To the Long Island Presbytery (1769)
87(1)
33. To Nathaniel Champlin (February 23, 1769)
88(1)
34. To Eleazar Wheelock (March 17, 1769)
89(1)
35. To Eleazar Wheelock (July 1, 1769)
90(1)
36. "Your Good Offer" (January 15, 1770)
90(1)
37. To Eleazar Wheelock (March 6, 1770)
91(1)
38. "The Flame of Friendship" (June 9,1770)
92(1)
39. To Joseph Fish (November 16, 1770)
93(1)
40. To Benjamin Forfitt (March 4, 1771)
94(2)
41. To Susannah Wheatley (March 5, 1771)
96(2)
42. To Eleazar Wheelock (July 24, 1771)
98(2)
43. To Eleazar Wheelock (July 13, 1772)
100(1)
44. To Andrew Gifford (October 19, 1772)
101(1)
45. To Eleazar Wheelock (January 27, 1773)
102(1)
46. To Samuel Buell (1773)
103(1)
47. To Rev. John Moorhead (April 10, 1773)
104(1)
48. To Eleazar Wheelock (June 1, 1773)
105(1)
49. To Susannah Wheatley (September 21, 1773)
106(1)
50. To the Officers of the English Trust for Moor's Indian Charity School (November 10, 1773)
107(2)
51. To Eleazar Wheelock (January 6, 1774)
109(1)
52. To Eleazar Wheelock (March 14, 1774)
110(1)
53. To Joseph Johnson (April 14, 1775)
111(1)
54. To the Oneida Tribe (1775)
111(2)
55. To John Thornton (1776)
113(1)
56. To John Thornton (January 1, 1777)
113(2)
57. To Benjamin Lathrop (January 8, 1778)
115(1)
58. To Benoni Occom (June 24, 1780)
116(2)
59. To John Bailey (1783)
118(2)
60. Recommendation of Eliphalet Lester (1783 or 1784)
120(1)
61. To John Bailey (1784)
121(2)
62. To Benjamin Garrett (August 21, 1784)
123(1)
63. To Solomon Welles (September 26, 1784)
124(2)
64. To the Trustees of Easthampton, Long Island (1784?)
126(1)
65. To Samuel Buell (February 1786?)
127(1)
66. "Is there no redress for the Indians?" (1788?)
128(1)
67. To the Friends in Philadelphia (February 22, 1788)
128(1)
68. To John Rodgers (May 12, 1788)
129(1)
69. To Jedediah Chapman (June 1790)
130(1)
70. To Benoni Occom (December 1790)
131(1)
71. To Benoni Occom (January 17, 1791)
131(1)
72. "Sorrow fills our Hearts" (1791)
132(1)
73. "Indians must have Teachers of their own Coular or Nation" (November 1791)
133(2)
74. To the New Stockbridge Community (December 1791)
135(1)
75. "Steady in Religion" (December 26, 1791)
136(1)
76. To New York Governor George Clinton (1792)
137(7)
PETITIONS AND TRIBAL DOCUMENTS
1. Mohegan Tribe to Sir William Johnson (1764)
144(1)
2. Mohegan Tribe against Robert Clelland (April 26, 1764)
145(1)
3. Mohegan Tribe Standing Agreements (1773)
146(1)
4. Mohegan Tribe to Colonial Overseer (1774)
147(1)
5. Mohegan Tribe on Rents (April 28, 1778)
147(1)
6. Mohegan and Niantic Tribes to the Connecticut Assembly (May 1785)
147(1)
7. Brotherton Tribe to United States Congress (1785?)
148(2)
8. Montaukett Tribe to the State of New York (1785?)
150(2)
9. Shinnecock Tribe to the State of New York (1787 or 1788)
152(1)
10. Mahican-Stockbridge Tribe to Samson Occom (August 27, 1787)
153(2)
11. Mahican-Stockbridge and Brotherton Tribes to all Benevolent Gentlemen (November 28-29, 1787)
155(1)
12. Mohegans to Richard Law (December 5, 1789)
156(1)
13. Brotherton Tribe to the New York State Assembly (January 1791)
157(9)
SERMONS
1. "Saying what think ye of Christ" (I), Matthew 22:42 (1759)
166(1)
2. "Awake thou that Sleepest," Ephesians 5:14 (1760)
166(4)
3. "Turn ye turn from your evil ways," Ezekiel 33:11 (1765)
170(2)
4. "Fight the good fight of faith," 1 Timothy 6:12 (July 13, 1766)
172(1)
5. "In Christ, he is a new Creature," 2 Corinthians 5:17 (July 13, 1766)
173(1)
6. "Saying what think ye of Christ" (II), Matthew 22:42 (1766-1768)
174(2)
7. A Sermon, Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul, An Indian (1772)
176(20)
8. "To all the Indians in this Boundless Continent" (1784)
196(2)
9. "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin," Daniel 5:25 (1785-1787?)
198(1)
10. "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," Luke 10: 26-27 (May 13, 1787?)
199(8)
11. "And, behold, I come quickly," Revelation 22:12 (August 19, 1787?)
207(2)
12. "Whither shall I go from thy spirit?," Psalms 139:7 (n.d.)
209(1)
13. "I Sat under his Shadow with Great Delight," Canticles 2:3 (n.d.)
210(1)
14. "Cry aloud, Spare not" (I), Isaiah 58:1 (n.d.)
210(4)
15. "Cry aloud, Spare not" (II), Isaiah 58:i (n.d.)
214(4)
16. "Wo unto him that givest his Neighbour Drink," Habakkuk 2:15 and Isaiah 5:11, 22 (n.d.)
218(1)
17. "Saying What think ye of Christ" (III), Matthew 22:42 (n.d.)
219(1)
18. "Giving thanks always for all things unto God," Ephesians 5:20 (n.d.)
220(3)
19. "Stand fast therefore in Liberty," Galatians 5:1 (n.d.)
223(3)
20. "When he drowned his Reason" (n.d.)
226(7)
HYMNS
1. Preface to A Choice Collection of Hymns and Sacred Songs (1774)
233(1)
2. "The Sufferings of Christ," or, "Throughout the Saviour's Life We Trace"
234(1)
3. "The Slow Traveller," or, "O Happy Souls How Fast You Go"
235(1)
4. "A Morning Hymn," or, "Now the Shades of Night Are Gone"
235(1)
5. "A Son's Farewell," or, "I Hear the Gospel's Joyful Sound"
236(1)
6. "Conversion Song," or, "Wak'd by the Gospel's Joyful Sound"
237(1)
7. "Come All My Young Companions, Come"
238(10)
JOURNALS
1. December 6, 1743-November 29, 1748
248(3)
2. June 21, 1750—February 9, 1751
251(1)
3. June 28, 1757-September 25, 1760
252(7)
4. May 30, 1761-July 7, 1761
259(4)
5. September 15, 1761—October 22, 1761
263(1)
6. November 21, 1765-July 22, 1766
264(10)
7. July 8, 1774-August 14, 1774
274(4)
8. December 22, 1774—February 9, 1775
278(6)
9. September 13, 1777-September 26, 1777
284(1)
10. May 8, 1784-April 26, 1785
285(8)
11. May 1, 1785-October 3, 1785
293(8)
12. October 4, 1785—December 4, 1785
301(12)
13. December 5, 1785—December 14, 1785
313(3)
14. December 15, 1785—January 22, 1786
316(9)
15. January 23, 1786—April 26, 1786
325(11)
16. June 26, 1786—December 10, 1786
336(17)
17. December 1786—April 7, 1787
353(7)
18. April 6, 1787—July 4, 1787
360(12)
19. July 5, 1787—September 16, 1787
372(6)
20. September 20, 1787—December 5, 1787
378(7)
21. December 1787—August 10, 1788
385(20)
22. May 11, 1789—October 9, 1789
405(4)
23. October 13, 1789—January 10, 1790
409(2)
24. February 21, 1790—March 6, 1790
411(2)
Individuals Named in Occom's Writings 413(14)
Bibliography 427(10)
Index 437

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