| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Book Review

To Live upon Hope: Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast. By Rachel Wheeler. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. xvi, 316 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8014-4631-3.)

While To Live upon Hope is grounded in religious studies, it is as much an ethnohistory of the Mohican Indians of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and of Shekomeko, New York. It is unlike other comparative eighteenth-century community histories. Comparative mission history is not a vibrant field. Most historians of the native Northeast typically favor one denomination—whether Congregationalist, Moravian, or Jesuit. Rachel Wheeler has found two separate towns in two separate colonies with two separate denominations working among the same Indians: the Congregationalists in Stockbridge and the Moravians in Shekomeko. Crossing borders of faith, language, race, and culture with a deep foundation in archival research, Wheeler moves in and out of these communities and penetrates the hearts and souls of some obscure Christian Indians. To Live upon Hope is an exciting and unusual book.

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