Tears of Repentance: Christian Indian Identity and Community in Colonial Southern New England

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index The Accomplished Singer (C. Mather), 86 An Account of the Conversion of an Indian (Harlow), 304 acculturation, 9 “An Act for Securing His Majesty’s Government in New York,” 213 “An Act for the Relief of the Indians Residing in Brothertown and New Stockbridge” (1791), 292–93 active voice, 15 activism in churches, 100–102, 105, 305–6 “An Act Relative to Lands in Brothertown ” (1795), 293 Adam, new, 243 Adam, sons of, 56, 71 Adams, Eliphant, 132 Adams, Samuel (of Farmington), 260, 262 Adams family of Farmington, 260 adoption as child of God, 40, 47, 50, 58, 125, 185, 199 affective model, 27–28 African-Indian intermarriage, 83, 99, 105, 106, 107, 152, 245, 287–88 African Indians, 116, 245; exclusion of, 241, 248, 287–88, 353n68 agape, 58, 69; missing from Indian conversion narratives, 70; rapture of, 59 agency, 1, 4–5; of colonized peoples, 6, 15, 98, 305; models of, 10 agrarianism, implementation of, 87, 148, 223, 273, 296–97 Ahhaton, William and Sarah, 35–36 Alanchachannum, conversion of, 95 Alcatraz, occupation of, 309 alcohol: abuse, 91, 94, 95, 161, 162, 171–72, 225–26, 237, 277, 294, 298, 299–300; drinking as sin, 56, 165, 194, 210, 270, 275, 276; Joseph Johnson and, 250, 254, 255; market economy and, 156; use, 154–57, 206, 293 Alexander, Jeffrey C., 319n20 Allen, Morse S., 313 “All Enquiring Friends” (Johnson), 264 Amanariachque, 205 American Indian Movement (aim), 10, 309–10 “American Synthesis,” 153–54, 240 American theology, 153–54 Amos, Jonathan, 94 The Anatomy of Melancholy (Burton), 7, 42–43, 316n22 Anderson, Fred, 234 Anderson, Virginia De John, 321n64 Anthony, confession of, 69 Antinomian Crisis, 26 384 Index Apess, William, 306–7; The Experiences of Five Christian Indians, 306; A Son of the Forest, 306 apostasy, 69, 172, 194 apostolic marriage, 201, 224 archaeology of knowledge, 5 Arminianism, 175, 339n57 Arnold, Laura, 282, 352n43 Asad, Talal, 10 asceticism, inner-worldly, 47, 49, 52, 53, 122, 155, 255; ethic of, 170; mysticism and, 13. See also rationalization Ashpo, Samuel, 155, 252, 289 athaskeaog, 88 Aunauwaukeekhheek (Jeremiah, Mahican sachem), 167 Aupaumut, Hendrick (New Stockbridge sachem), 270, 271, 273, 274, 277–78, 279, 286, 351n31 Aupaumut, Solomon, 278 authority, hierarchical model of, 30, 31, 45–46, 88, 335n88; evangelical challenge to, 121, 126, 154, 251 automachia, 47 autonomy, Indian, 31, 108, 109, 118, 161, 243, 248, 280, 286, 287, 301, 309 awakening, self-determination and, 179. See also Occom, Samson; Occom , Samson, works by Axtell, James, 12, 15, 28, 48, 71–72, 244, 319n17 Backus, Isaac, 135 Banden (choirs), 201. See also Moravian missions baptism, 60, 199; as act of fealty, 165; adult, 222; delaying of, 275; refused , 220–22 Baptists, 88–89, 94, 107, 287, 289, 291; democratic appeal of, 100; separatist , 133 Barth, Fredrik, 315n10 Baxter, Richard, 28, 58, 68, 257, 348n58; Call to the Unconverted, 62; and correspondence with John Eliot, 28, 70; The Saints’ Everlasting Rest, 70, 252–54, 348n56 Bayly, Lewis, 58; The Practice of Piety, 62 Beaver Wars, 162 Belcher, Jonathan, 162, 164, 165 “believer’s churches,” 133 Belknap, Jeremy, 274, 298 Bethel, 160, 191, 192, 275; colonialism and, 193; lack of indigenous leadership at, 193–94 Bethlehem, 202, 213; conversions at, 205. See also Moravian missions Black James, 69 Blood Theology, 178. See also Moravians Boas, Franz, 3, 142 Book of Common Prayer, 41 Boston Commissioners, 148, 151, 154, 178, 257 Boudinot, Elias, 303–4 Bourne, Richard, 106 Bowden, Henry Warner, 316n25 Boyle, Robert, 26 Bradford, William, 22–23 Bragdon, Kathleen J., 344n66 Brainerd, David, 160, 161, 167–69, 178, 182, 183, 184–93, 275; Bethel mission of, 191–92; Crossweeksung mission of, 183, 184–90; illness and death of, 191, 192; Kaunaumeek Index 385 mission of, 167–168; love, emphasis on, 185; as melancholy saint, 110, 168; Mirabila Dei inter Indicos, 183, 184; Native conversion narrative recorded by, 186–89; and social intimacy with Delawares, 192 Brainerd, John, 160, 169, 192, 194, 195, 275 Brant, Joseph, 239 Briant, Solomon, 102, 103, 108–9, 111, 112 “A Brief Account of the State of the Indians on Martha’s Vineyard” (E. Mayhew), 84 Brooks, Joanna, 117, 128, 146, 238, 265, 348n41 Brooks, Lisa, 108 Bross, Kristina, 61, 322n6, 324n43, 325n55 brotherliness. See religion of brotherliness Brotherton, 169, 195–96, 269 Brothertown, xi, 16, 119, 120, 135, 153, 238–68, 269–70, 271, 279–88, 290–301, 306, 352n43; demographics of, 294–96, 353n91...