Samson Occom [[electronic resource] ] : collected writings from a founder of Native American literature / / edited by Joanna Brooks

• Autore: Occom Samson <1723-1792.>
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (474 p.)
• Disciplina: 974.004973092
• Soggetto topico: Mohegan Indians; Indian civic leaders - New England; Indian religious leaders - New England; Preaching; Indians of North America - Missions - New England; Indians of North America - New England - Religion
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BrooksJoanna <1971->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; A Note on the Texts; Chronology; Abbreviations; "This Indian World": An Introduction to the Writings of Samson Occom; PROSE; LETTERS; PETITIONS AND TRIBAL DOCUMENTS; SERMONS; HYMNS; JOURNALS; Individuals Named in Occom's Writings; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 politic
• Altri titoli varianti: Collected writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan: leadership and literature in eighteenth-century Native America
• Titolo autorizzato: Samson Occom
• ISBN: 1-280-70438-1; 0-19-534688-2; 1-4294-2144-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450877503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II