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The Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan Joanna Brooks (Assistant Professor, Department of English, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin)

The Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan By Joanna Brooks (Assistant Professor, Department of English, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin)

Summary

This Indian World is the first-ever edition of collected writings by pioneering Native American religious and political leader Samson Occom (Mohegan; 1723-1792). Occom's letters, sermons, journals, petitions, and hymns offer unparalleled views into eighteenth-century Native America. Essential reading for scholars of early and Native American history, literature, and religion.

The Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan Summary

The Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan: Literature and Leadership in Eighteenth-Century Native America by Joanna Brooks (Assistant Professor, Department of English, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin)

This Indian World is the first-ever edition of collected writings by pioneering Native American religious and political leader Samson Occom (Mohegan; 1723-1792). Occom's letters, sermons, journals, petitions, and hymns offer unparalleled views into eighteenth-century Native America. Essential reading for scholars of early and Native American history, literature, and religion.

The Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan Reviews

Brooks's excellent collection is an indispensable addition to all New England, Colonial history, and Native American collections. Essential. * R. Berleant-Schiller, CHOICE *

About Joanna Brooks (Assistant Professor, Department of English, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin)

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 .

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NPB9780195170832
9780195170832
0195170830
The Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan: Literature and Leadership in Eighteenth-Century Native America by Joanna Brooks (Assistant Professor, Department of English, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin)
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Oxford University Press Inc
2006-11-16
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