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RedFraggle |
Posted - November 24 2007 : 3:11:17 PM I was browsing some sale books on Amazon and came across these books that I thought might intrigue anyone interested in Native American history and religion. Christmas is coming, after all!
The Land Looks After Us: A History of Native American Religion by Joel W. Martin I haven't read this book, but the Amazon online reader will allow you to see the map that charts the historical location of most of the NA tribes. Take a look, if you're interested: http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0195145860/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-9090065-8288609#reader-link
A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America by Nancy Shoemaker
The Middle Ground by Richard White Not a sale book, but recommended by a reviewer who didn't particularly like Shoemaker's book. |
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MoneminsCastle |
Posted - May 12 2009 : 11:58:46 AM quote: Originally posted by Monadnock Guide
Thanks Castle, - some excellent recommendations. I will definitely be reading the Stockbridge Nation.
Although the entire book is very good, Chapter II is an interesting section about Jonathan Edwards, pastor of the Stockbridge Chuch from 1751 - 1758, when he passed away. Edwards was one of America's most famous theologians. In 1741 he wrote one of the most famous sermons in all of history, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, in which he mentions a bow and arrow, which seemed almost prophetic.
The bow of God's wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice points the arrow at your heart, and strains the bow, and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, and that of an angry God, without any promise or obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one second from being made drunk with your blood. Thus all of you that never had the great change of heart, by the mighty power of the Spirit of God upon your souls; all of you that were never born again, and made new creatures, and raised from being dead in sin, to a new state, and never experienced light and life, are in the hands of an angry God.
Algonkian Church History blog this month talks about a book about Jonathan Edwards: http://algonkianchurchhistory.blogspot.com/2009/05/gerald-mcdermott-looks-at-jonathan.html |
Monadnock Guide |
Posted - May 11 2009 : 1:56:37 PM Thanks Castle, - some excellent recommendations. I will definitely be reading the Stockbridge Nation. |
MoneminsCastle |
Posted - May 11 2009 : 12:34:50 PM quote: Originally posted by Monadnock Guide
Welcome aboard Castle, - any particular two or three books you'd recommend?
I have 5 books that I think anyone interested in Mahican history should read. They are 100% free off the interent in PDF form.
History, Manners, and Customers of the Indian Nations 1876 John Heckewelder http://books.google.com/books?id=EoqFU50BYaAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=History,+Manners,+and+Customs+of+the+Indian+Nations
History of the Indian Tribes of Hudsons River 1872 E. M. Ruttenber http://books.google.com/books?id=qSwTAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=History+of+the+Indian+Tribes+of+Hudsons+River
Muh-he-ka-ne-ok, A History of the Stockbridge Nation 1893 J.N. Davidson http://books.google.com/books?id=a3BHAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Muh-he-ka-ne-ok
The Hoosac valley, its legends and its history http://www.archive.org/details/hoosacvalleyitsl00nileuoft
The Lenp and their legends : with the complete text and symbols of the Walam olum http://www.archive.org/details/lenptheirleg00brin
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Monadnock Guide |
Posted - April 30 2009 : 7:11:31 PM Welcome aboard Castle, - any particular two or three books you'd recommend? |
MoneminsCastle |
Posted - April 30 2009 : 3:29:28 PM These are the books on indian tribes of New York State that I have found on the Internet and read. -------------------------------------------------------------------------
The History and Antiquties of New England, New York, New Jersey, & Pennsylvania 1844 John Warner Barber.
The Algonkian Occupation of New York 1923 Alanson Skinner
Aboriginal Place Names of New York 1907 William M. Beauchamp
An Ancient Algonkian Fishing Village at Cayuga, New York 1919 - Alanson B. Skinner
An Algonkian-Iroquois Site on Castle Creek, Broome County, N.Y. -1934 - William Ritchie
History of Philips War 1827 J.H.A. Frost
History, Manners, and Customers of the Indian Nations 1876 John Heckewelder
History of the Indian Tribes of Hudsons River 1872 E. M. Ruttenber
History of the State of New York (with Novum Belgium) 1826 - Joseph W. Moulton
Housatonic Indians 1693 to 1755 1911 Samuel Hopkins
Indian Legends of Saratoga and the Upper Hudson Valley 1884 Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester
The Indians of Greater New York and the Lower Hudson 1909 Clark Wissler
The Lamoka Lake Site 1932 - William Ritchie
The Lenape and their Legends (with Walam Olum) 1885 Daniel Brinton
Muh-he-ka-ne-ok, A History of the Stockbridge Nation 1893 J.N. Davidson
The Papers of Sir William Johnson 1939 Almon W. Lauber
Stockbridge, Past and Present 1854 Electa F. Jones
The Hoosac Valley, Its Legends and Its History 1912 - Grace Greylock Niles
The Indian Pass 1869 Alfred B. Street
The Pre-Iroquoian Algonkian Indians of Central and Western New York 1919 - Alanson Skinner
The Archeological History of New York 1920 - Arthur C. Parker
The Origin of the Iroquois as Suggest by Their Archeology 1916 Arthur C. Parkes
Six Nations Indian Lore and History 1953 - Raymond Fadden
The Founders of the Iroquois League 1921 William Beacuchamp
The History of the New York Iroquois 1905 - William Beacuchamp
The Influence of the Iroquois on History & Archaeology 1911 Arthur Parker
The Iroquois Book of Rites Horatio Hale
Hiawatha and the Iroquois Confederation - Horatio Hale
Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations - Elias Johnson
Algonquin Indian Tales - Young, Egerton R., 1840-1909
The Abenaki Indians - Their Treaties of 1713 & 1717, and a Vocabulary - Frederic Kidder
An Introduction to the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians - C.H. Yarrow
The Composition of Indian Geographical Names from the Algonkin Languages - J. Hammond Trumbull
Algonquin Indian Tales - Egerton Ryerson Young
Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children - Mabel Powers
Iroquois Cantons in New York New York State Library
Iroquois Cemetery in Erie County, New York 1916 Marian E. White
History of New Netherland 1855 - E. B. OCallaghan
Journals of Major Robert Rogers 1883 Franklin B. Hough
Historical & Archeological Resources of Castleton Island 1977 Paul R. Huey
An Archeological & Documentary History of Peebles Island 1996 - Paul R. Huey
Crown Point Historic Site: An Outline History 1966 - Gregory Furness
ONLINE RESOURCES
Google Books - http://books.google.com/
Many Books - http://manybooks.net
Internet Archive - http://www.archive.org
New York State Library Digital Collections -
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IN ADDITION, I would recommend reading an older copy of The Hudson River Valley Review, with an article written by Warren Broderick of the NYS Museum. It's called New York State's Mohican's in Literature. I have bought a half dozen of the books listed off Amazon used from $.01 to a few dollars.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=3&q=http://www.hudsonrivervalley.org/HRVR_19.2.pdf&ei=Kvv5Sd-1HoTyMsOZjLkE&usg=AFQjCNEo_tmgPAePQNRHRIZATFsKjL1ZTA |
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