Publisher description for Samson Occom : collected writings from a founder of Native American literature / edited by Joanna Brooks.
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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 Presenting previously unpublished and newly recovered writings, this collection more than doubles available Native American writing from before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.
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:
Occom, Samson, -- 1723-1792 -- Diaries.
Occom, Samson, -- 1723-1792 -- Correspondence.
Mohegan Indians -- Biography.
Indian civic leaders -- New England -- Biography.
Indian religious leaders -- New England -- Biography.
Preaching -- Early works to 1800.
Indians of North America -- Missions -- New England.
Indians of North America -- New England -- Religion.