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Stevens, Laura Marie.

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"The poor Indians": Native Americans in eighteenth-century missionary writings.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"The poor Indians": Native Americans in eighteenth-century missionary writings./
Author:	Stevens, Laura Marie.
Description:	299 p.
Notes:	Chair: Julie Ellison.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-03A.
Subject:	History, Modern. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3047181
ISBN:	0493612734

"The poor Indians": Native Americans in eighteenth-century missionary writings.
Stevens, Laura Marie.

"The poor Indians": Native Americans in eighteenth-century missionary writings. - 299 p.

Chair: Julie Ellison.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 1998.

While English missionaries tried to christianize Native Americans, they created an array of letters, journals, and sermons to publicize their work for a domestic audience. Studying these writings alongside related works by John Dryden, Daniel Defoe, Alexander Pope, and Elkanah Settle, this dissertation explores the role that missionaries' portrayals of Native Americans played in eighteenth-century British and American culture. Christian mission, this project shows, did more than justify imperialism: it influenced European perceptions of Native Americans and it provided arenas where readers in England could become involved imaginatively and emotionally with colonial activity.

ISBN: 0493612734Subjects--Topical Terms:

516334
History, Modern.

"The poor Indians": Native Americans in eighteenth-century missionary writings.
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520 $a Because English missionary groups had to seek funding, textual portrayals of Christianized Indians outweighed the presence of actual converts. Cultural production, in other words, exceeded conversion. The figure of “the Poor Indian” dominated these portrayals, as it highlighted the Indians' need for assistance and constructed beneficent readers eager to help them. As they tried to save the Indians, readers renewed their own faith, strengthened the home front against incursions of paganism or popery, and invested British Christianity with philanthropic fervor. Descriptions of American Indians thus became items of evangelical exchange, constituting returns on the money, emotions, and prayers exported by the British. These portrayals occupied important positions in the British cultural imagination, constructing an imperialist ideology through religious intentions and racialized pity.
520 $a The first chapter, “‘We Seek Not Only Theirs, but Them’: Conversion, Desire, and the Rhetoric of Commerce,” shows how missionaries drew on a commercial model of exchange to assert that Native Americans needed the English. Chapter two, “‘Beloved Brethren’: Poor Indians and the Building of British Collectivity,” argues that missionary writings built modes of affiliation that strengthened transatlantic ties and contributed to nationalist sentiment. Chapter Three, “‘Here they were now murdered!’ Death, Waste, and the Husbandry of Souls,” proposes that the trope of the dying Indian has an underacknowledged origin in missionary writings. Chapter Four, “The Invisible Christian Indian: Reading the Words of Native American Converts,” studies converted Indians who tried to represent themselves outside the images that missionaries used to portray them.
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