Kristina Bross

Early Native Literacies in New England: A Documentary and Critical Anthology - Native Americans of the Northeast: Culture, History & the Contemporary Kristina Bross

Marc Notes: Avail. in cloth.; Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Mohegans -- Letter of Instruction from Oanhekoe, Sachem of the Mohegan Indians in New England, 14 July 1703 / Oweneco -- Letter of Instruction from Oanhekoe, Sachem of the Mohegan Indians, 14 July 1703 / David Murray -- Diary, 1773 / Joseph Johnson -- Joseph Johnson's Diary, Farmington, Connecticut, 18 November 1772 to 1 February 1773 / Laura J. Murray -- Mohegan Wood-Splint Basket -- The Cultural Work of a Mohegan Painted Basket / Stephanie Fitzgerald -- Temperance and Morality Sermon / Samson Occom -- Samson Occom and the Sermonic Tradition / Heather Bouwman -- Title Pages from Samson Occom's Sermon Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul -- Samson Occom and Native Print Literacy / Phillip H. Round -- 2. The Narragansetts -- The Case of Sarah Pharaoh / Sarah Pharaoh -- The Dreadful Case of Sarah Pharaoh: Finding Native Women's Voices in an Eighteenth-Century Infanticide Case / Ann Marie Plane -- Letter to Eleazer Wheelock, 1769 / Sarah Simon -- Writing Back to Wheelock: One Young Woman's Response to Colonial Christianity / Hilary E. Wyss -- 3. Natick -- Confession Narrative, 1656 / Samuel Ponampam -- Temptation in the Wilderness: Ponampam's Confession / Kristina Bross -- Natick Indian Petition, 1748 -- 'Our Old and Valluable Liberty': A Natick Indian Petition in Defense of Their Fishing Rights, 1748 / Jean O'Brien -- 4. The Pequots -- Pequot Medicine Bundle -- Bundles, Bears, and Bibles: Interpreting Seventeenth-Century Native 'Texts' / Kevin A. McBride -- The Confession and Dying Warning of Katherine Garret -- Seeing Other Wise: Reading a Pequot Execution Narrative / Jodi Schorb -- 5. The Wampanoags -- Mittark's Will, 1681/1703 -- 'We Chief Men Say This': Wampanoag Memory, English Authority, and the Contest over Mittark's Will / David J. Silverman -- The Hannit Family, in Experience Mayhew's Indian Converts -- Tradition and Innovation in a Colonial Wampanoag Family from Martha's Vineyard / Laura Arnold Leibman -- 6. Intertribal Conversations -- Pictograph Image on a 1725 Treaty (Wabanaki) -- Reading Expressions of Identity on a 1725 Peace and Friendship Treaty / Heidi Bohaker -- Montaukett Petition, 1788 -- 'This Indian World': A Petition/Origin Story from Samson Occom (Mohegan) and the Montaukett Tribe / Joanna Brooks -- Hendrick Aupaumut (Mahican/Stockbridge), A Short narration of my last Journey to the western Contry -- Historical Introduction to Hendrick Aupaumut's Short Narration / Sandra M. Gustafson -- Hendrick Aupaumut and the Cultural Middle Ground / Sandra M. Gustafson -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index. Publisher Marketing: Designed as a corrective to colonial literary histories that have excluded Native voices, this anthology brings together a variety of primary texts produced by the Algonquian peoples of New England during the 17th, 18th and very early 19th centuries. Review Citations:

Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2009 pg. 66 (EAN 9781558496484, Paperback)

Contributor Bio:  Bross, Kristina Kristina Bross is associate professor of English and American studies at Purdue University and author of Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians in Colonial America. Contributor Bio:  Wyss, Hilary E Hilary E. Wyss is associate professor of English at Aubum University and author of Writing Indians: Literacy, Christianity, and Native Community in Early America (University of Massachusetts Press, 2000).