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Gideon's People
William A. . Ed(S): Starna
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Description for Gideon's People
Hardback. Tells the story of an American Indian community in the Housatonic Valley of northwestern Connecticut. Editor(s): Starna, William A. Translator(s): Dally-Starna, Corinna. Series: The Iroquoians & Their World. Num Pages: 4 photos, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBEC; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HRCX7; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1157.
Gideon’s People is the story of an American Indian community in the Housatonic Valley of northwestern Connecticut. It is based on some three decades of nearly uninterrupted German-language diaries and allied records kept by the Moravian missionaries who had joined the Indians at a place called Pachgatgoch, later Schaghticoke. It is supplemented by colonial records and regional political, social, and religious histories and ethnographies. As such, it represents the only comprehensive, thoroughly contextualized description of a Native people in southern New England and adjacent eastern New York for the mid-eighteenth century.
The Moravians’ diaries report on the day-to-day activities in ... Read more
Gideon’s People is the story of an American Indian community in the Housatonic Valley of northwestern Connecticut. It is based on some three decades of nearly uninterrupted German-language diaries and allied records kept by the Moravian missionaries who had joined the Indians at a place called Pachgatgoch, later Schaghticoke. It is supplemented by colonial records and regional political, social, and religious histories and ethnographies. As such, it represents the only comprehensive, thoroughly contextualized description of a Native people in southern New England and adjacent eastern New York for the mid-eighteenth century.
The Moravians’ diaries report on the day-to-day activities in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Condition
New
Series
The Iroquoians & Their World
Number of Pages
1376
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803224278
SKU
V9780803224278
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About William A. . Ed(S): Starna
Corinna Dally-Starna is the translator of Lakotas, Black Robes, and Holy Women: German Reports from the Indian Missions in South Dakota, 1886–1900 (Nebraska 2007). William A. Starna is a professor emeritus of anthropology at State University of New York College at Oneonta. He is the coeditor of Iroquois Journey: An Anthropologist Remembers (Nebraska 2007) and of Adriaen van der Donck’s ... Read more
Reviews for Gideon's People
"An impressive achievement."—Robert L. Gallagher, Evangelical Missions Quarterly "As anyone who has dabbled in the archives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, can attest, the German script in which most of these documents are written makes for very slow going indeed—in fact, the Moravian Archives offers an annual class simply to help visitors learn how to navigate the difficult orthography. The editors' accessible ... Read more