| The Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan Contributor(s): Occom, Samson (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195170830 ISBN-13: 9780195170832 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $91.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2006 Annotation: 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 Presenting previously unpublished and newly recovered writings, this collection more than doubles available Native American writing from before 1800. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography - Literary Collections | American - General |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2006000068 |
| Physical Information: 1.37" H x 6.54" W x 9.53" (1.83 lbs) 480 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Presenting previously unpublished and newly recovered writings, this collection more than doubles available Native American writing from before 1800. |