"For the good of their souls" : performing Christianity in eighteenth-century Mohawk country / William B. Hart.

"In 1712, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts opened their mission near present-day Albany, New York, and began baptizing residents of the nearby Mohawk village Tiononderoge, the easternmost nation of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy. Within three years, about one-...

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Main Author: Hart, William B. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2020]
Series:Native Americans of the Northeast.
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Physical Description:xi, 284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Format: Book

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