Faith and boundaries : colonists, Christianity, and community among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard, 1600-1871
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Faith and boundaries : colonists, Christianity, and community among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard, 1600-1871
(Cambridge studies in North American Indian history)
Cambridge University Press, 2007
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"First published in 2005, first paperback edition 2007"--T.p. verso
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It was indeed possible for Indians and Europeans to live peacefully in early America and for Indians to survive as distinct communities. Faith and Boundaries uses the story of Martha's Vineyard Wampanoags to examine how. On an island marked by centralized English authority, missionary commitment, and an Indian majority, the Wampanoags' adaptation to English culture, especially Christianity, checked violence while safeguarding their land, community, and ironically, even customs. Yet the colonists' exploitation of Indian land and labor exposed the limits of Christian fellowship and thus hardened racial division. The Wampanoags learned about race through this rising bar of civilization - every time they met demands to reform, colonists moved the bar higher until it rested on biological difference. Under the right circumstances, like those on Martha's Vineyard, religion could bridge wide difference between the peoples of early America, but its transcendent power was limited by the divisiveness of race.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Epenow's lessons
- 1. 'Here comes the Englishman'
- 2. To become all things to all men
- 3. The Lord tests the righteous
- 4. Deposing the Sachem to defend the Sachemship
- 5. Leading values
- 6. The costs of debt
- 7. 'Newcomers and strangers'
- Conclusion: fencing in, fencing out.
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