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Contents Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1 The Mohegans 15 Oweneco,“Letter of Instruction from Oanhekoe, Sachem of the Mohegan Indians in New England, 14 July 1703” 19 David Murray,“Letter of Instruction from Oanhekoe, Sachem of the Mohegan Indians, 14 July 1703” 21 Joseph Johnson,“Diary, 1773” 28 Laura J. Murray,“Joseph Johnson’s Diary, Farmington, Connecticut, 18 November 1772 to 1 February 1773” 42 “Mohegan Wood-Splint Basket” 51 Stephanie Fitzgerald,“The Cultural Work of a Mohegan Painted Basket” 52 Samson Occom,“Temperance and Morality Sermon” 57 Heather Bouwman,“Samson Occom and the Sermonic Tradition” 63 “Title Pages from Samson Occom’s Sermon Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul” 72 Phillip H. Round,“Samson Occom and Native Print Literacy” 75 2 The Narragansetts 84 Sarah Pharaoh,“The Case of Sarah Pharaoh” 86 Ann Marie Plane,“The Dreadful Case of Sarah Pharaoh: Finding Native Women’s Voices in an Eighteenth-Century Infanticide Case” 88 Sarah Simon,“Letter to Eleazar Wheelock, 1769” 93 Hilary E. Wyss,“Writing Back to Wheelock: One Young Woman’s Response to Colonial Christianity” 96 3 Natick 105 Samuel Ponampam,“Confession Narrative, 1656” 108 Kristina Bross,“Temptation in the Wilderness: Ponampam’s Confession” 110 “Natick Indian Petition, 1748” 119 Jean O’Brien,“‘Our Old and Valluable Liberty’: A Natick Indian Petition in Defense of Their Fishing Rights, 1748” 123 4 The Pequots 130 “Pequot Medicine Bundle” 132 Kevin A. McBride,“Bundles, Bears, and Bibles: Interpreting Seventeenth-Century Native‘Texts’” 132 “The Confession and Dying Warning of Katherine Garret” 142 Jodi Schorb,“Seeing Other Wise: Reading a Pequot Execution Narrative” 148 5 The Wampanoags 162 “Mittark’s Will, 1681/1703” 164 David J. Silverman,“‘We Chief Men Say This’: Wampanoag Memory, English Authority, and the Contest over Mittark’s Will” 166 “The Hannit Family, in Experience Mayhew’s Indian Converts” 174 Laura Arnold Leibman,“Tradition and Innovation in a Colonial Wampanoag Family from Martha’s Vineyard” 191 vi · Contents [54.167.52.238] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 17:38 GMT) 6 Intertribal Conversations 198 “Pictograph Image on a 1725 Treaty” (Wabanaki) 201 Heidi Bohaker,“Reading Expressions of Identity on a 1725 Peace and Friendship Treaty” 201 “Montaukett Petition, 1788” 213 Joanna Brooks,“‘This Indian World’: A Petition/Origin Story from Samson Occom (Mohegan) and the Montaukett Tribe” 215 Hendrick Aupaumut (Mahican/Stockbridge), A Short narration of my last Journey to the western Contry 223 Sandra M. Gustafson,“Historical Introduction to Hendrick Aupaumut’s Short Narration” 237 Sandra M. Gustafson,“Hendrick Aupaumut and the Cultural Middle Ground” 242 Bibliography 251 Contributors 269 Index 273 Contents · vii ...