Moravian Mission Diaries of David Zeisberger

Moravian Mission Diaries of David Zeisberger
Title Moravian Mission Diaries of David Zeisberger PDF eBook
Author Hermann Wellenreuther
Publisher Penn State Press
Pages 678
Release 2010-11-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 0271048247

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Diary of David Zeisberger

Diary of David Zeisberger
Title Diary of David Zeisberger PDF eBook
Author David Zeisberger
Publisher
Pages 510
Release 1885
Genre Delaware Indians
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Diary of David Zeisberger

Diary of David Zeisberger
Title Diary of David Zeisberger PDF eBook
Author David Zeisberger
Publisher
Pages 512
Release 1885
Genre Biography & Autobiography
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The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees, Abridged Edition

The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees, Abridged Edition
Title The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees, Abridged Edition PDF eBook
Author Rowena McClinton
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 184
Release 2010-12-01
Genre History
ISBN 0803234392

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In 1801 the Moravians, a Pietist German-speaking group from Central Europe, founded the Springplace Mission at a site in present-day northwestern Georgia. The Moravians remained among the Cherokees for more than thirty years, longer than any other Christian group. John and Anna Rosina Gambold served at the mission from 1805 until Anna's death in 1821. Anna, the principal author of the diaries, chronicles the intimate details of Cherokee daily life for seventeen years. Anna describes mission life and what she heard and saw at Springplace: food preparation and consumption, transactions pertaining to land, Cherokee body ornaments, conjuring, Cherokee law and punishment, Green Corn ceremonies, ball play, and matriarchal and marriage traditions. She similarly recounts stories she heard about rainmaking, the origins of the Cherokee people, and how she herself conversed with curious Cherokees about Christian images and fixtures. She also recalls earthquakes, conversions, notable visitors, annuity distributions, and illnesses. This abridged edition offers selected excerpts from the definitive edition of the Springplace diary, enabling significant themes and events of Cherokee culture and history to emerge. Anna's carefully recorded observations reveal the Cherokees' worldview and allow readers a glimpse into a time of change and upheaval for the tribe.

Zinzendorf, the Ecumenical Pioneer

Zinzendorf, the Ecumenical Pioneer
Title Zinzendorf, the Ecumenical Pioneer PDF eBook
Author Arthur James Lewis
Publisher
Pages 224
Release 1962
Genre Christian Union
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The Western Delaware Indian Nation, 1730–1795

The Western Delaware Indian Nation, 1730–1795
Title The Western Delaware Indian Nation, 1730–1795 PDF eBook
Author Richard S. Grimes
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 355
Release 2017-10-16
Genre History
ISBN 1611462258

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During the early eighteenth century, three phratries or tribes (Turtle, Turkey, and Wolf) of Delaware Indians left their traditional homeland in the Delaware River watershed and moved west to the Allegheny Valley of western Pennsylvania and eventually across the Ohio River into the Muskingum River valley. As newcomers to the colonial American borderlands, these bands of Delawares detached themselves from their past in the east, developed a sense of common cause, and created for themselves a new regional identity in western Pennsylvania. The Western Delaware Indian Nation, 1730-1795: Warriors and Diplomats is a case study of the western Delaware Indian experience, offering critical insight into the dynamics of Native American migrations to new environments and the process of reconstructing social and political systems to adjust to new circumstances. The Ohio backcountry brought to center stage the masculine activities of hunting, trade, war-making, diplomacy and was instrumental in the transformation of Delaware society and with that change, the advance of a western Delaware nation. This nation, however, was forged in a time of insecurity as it faced the turmoil of imperial conflict during the Seven Years' War and the backcountry racial violence brought about by the American Revolution. The stress of factionalism in the council house among Delaware leaders such as Tamaqua, White Eyes, Killbuck, and Captain Pipe constantly undermined the stability of a lasting political western Delaware nation. This narrative of western Delaware nationhood is a story of the fight for independence and regional unity and the futile effort to create and maintain an enduring nation. In the end the western Delaware nation became fragmented and forced as in the past, to journey west in search of a new beginning. The Western Delaware Indian Nation, 1730-1795: Warriors and Diplomats is an account of an Indian people and their dramatic and arduous struggle for autonomy, identity, political union, and a permanent homeland.

David Zeisberger

David Zeisberger
Title David Zeisberger PDF eBook
Author Earl P. Olmstead
Publisher Kent State University Press
Pages 478
Release 1997
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780873385688

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David Zeisberger: A life among the Indians offers the unique perspective of a Moravian missionary who lived and worked for sixty-three years among the Iroquois and Delaware nations in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Upper Canada. Earl P. Olmstead's narrative draws on thousands of pages of Zeisberger's own diaries, some of which are translated here for the first time. The diaries offer insights into the role of wampum in tribal government, problems resulting from the mass Euro-American western migration, and incidents of duplicity on the parts of both the American government and Native American nations. Of particular interest are Zeisberger's descriptions of Native American life in the years surrounding the French and Indian War and the American Revolution and the effects of these conflicts on the nations that lived in Ohio Country.