Making Mennonites: Hopi gender roles and Christian transformations

DM Notarianni - Ethnohistory, 1996 - JSTOR
DM Notarianni
Ethnohistory, 1996JSTOR
In 1893 Mennonite missionaries arrived on Third Mesa of the Hopi Indian Reservation in
Arizona. They brought with them a zeal for conversion, a new economic order, Western
technology, and new ideas regarding the roles of men and women. In the subsequent forty-
plus years the Hopi Mennonite community hesitantly grew, and with that growth came new
roles for both men and women.
In 1893 Mennonite missionaries arrived on Third Mesa of the Hopi Indian Reservation in Arizona. They brought with them a zeal for conversion, a new economic order, Western technology, and new ideas regarding the roles of men and women. In the subsequent forty-plus years the Hopi Mennonite community hesitantly grew, and with that growth came new roles for both men and women.
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