{"product_id":"gideons-people-2-volume-set-being-a-chronicle-of-an-american-indian-community-in-colonial-connecticut-and-the-moravian-missionaries-who-served-the-9780803224278","title":"Gideon's People, 2-Volume Set: Being a Chronicle of an American Indian Community in Colonial Connecticut and the Moravian Missionaries Who Served The","description":"\u003ci\u003eGideon's People\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003eThe Moravians' diaries report on the day-to-day activities in the community, including house-building, the production of material goods, hunting, fishing, and farming. We are told of marriages, births, deaths, disease, and the calamity of alcohol abuse. The unavoidable interactions with surrounding Indians and close-by colonial farmers and townspeople are offered in detail, along with the sometimes contentious relations with local and colonial authorities. And there is the omnipresence of the missionaries' religious message to the Indians, frequently accepted and then tested by the inevitable temptations and, more than once, spurned. But we also learn of the struggles of the Moravians to feed and clothe themselves at a distance from their congregation in Bethlehem and their endeavors, often marked by conflict and deep personal pain, to lead their Native flock to the Lamb.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William A. Starna\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 1376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 2.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803224278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/09\/2009 pg. 15\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCorinna Dally-Starna is the translator of \u003ci\u003eLakotas, Black Robes, and Holy Women: German Reports from the Indian Missions in South Dakota, 1886\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003e1900\u003c\/i\u003e (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 \u003ci\u003eIroquois Journey: An Anthropologist Remembers\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska 2007) and of Adriaen van der Donck's \u003ci\u003eA Description of New Netherland\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska 2008).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40138422190195,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":174.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_066f1bb9-f33a-4009-a0c4-4afdf1ed0b38.jpg?v=1654349383","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/gideons-people-2-volume-set-being-a-chronicle-of-an-american-indian-community-in-colonial-connecticut-and-the-moravian-missionaries-who-served-the-9780803224278","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}