Writing Indians: Literacy, Christianity, and Native Community in Early America

by Hilary E. Wyss

Book Overview

A study of cultural encounter, this book takes a fresh look at the much ignored and often misunderstood experience of Christian Indians in early America. Focusing on New England missionary settlements from the mid-seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries, Hilary E. Wyss examines the ways in which Native American converts to Christianity developed their own distinct identity within the context of a colonial culture.

With an approach that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155849412X
• ISBN13: 9781558494121
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 9.0"