A. G. Roeber is Professor of Early Modern History and Religious Studies and Co-Director of the Max Kade German-American Research Institute at Penn State University. He is the author of Palatines, Liberty, and Property: German Lutherans and Colonial British North America (1993), which was co-winner of the American Historical Association's 1993 John H. Dunning Prize.

• ContentsPrefaceA. G. Roeber“This Much Admired Man”: Isaac Glikhikan, Moravian DelawareDavid Edmunds I. Texts and Interpretive Perspectives1. Moravians and the Development of the Genre of EthnographyChristian F. Feest2. The Succession of Head Chiefs and the Delaware Culture of Consent: The Delaware Nation,David Zeisberger, and Modern EthnographyHermann Wellenreuther3. Zeisberger’s Diaries as a Source for Studying Delaware Sociopolitical OrganizationRobert S. GrumetII. Missions and Exchanges4. The Impossible Acculturation: French Missionaries and Cultural Exchanges in the Seventeenth CenturyDominique Deslandres5. The Holy See and the Conversion of Aboriginal Peoples in North America, 1760–1830Luca Codignola6. Policing Wabanaki Missions in the Seventeenth CenturyChristopher J. Bilodeau7. The Moravian Missionaries of Bethlehem and SalemRowena McClinton8. “Incline Your Second Ear This Way”: Song as a Cultural Mediator in Moravian Mission TownsWalter W. WoodwardIII. Indigenous Perspectives9. Munsee Social Networking and Political Encounters with the Moravian ChurchSiegrun Kaiser10. The Gender Frontier Revisited: Native American Women in the Age of RevolutionJane T. Merritt11. A Footing Among Them: Haudenosaunee Perspectives on Land Cessions, Government Relations, and ChristianityAlyssa Mt. PleasantIV. Conclusion12. Translation as a Prism: Broadening the Spectrum of Eighteenth-Century IdentityJulie Tomberlin WeberIndex

“The anthology succeeds in recovering Native as well as missionary voices, carefully building context to make those voices understandable to contemporary readers and reintroducing these important texts in exciting ways that will stimulate further study.”—R. A. Bucko Choice

A. G. Roeber is Professor of Early Modern History and Religious Studies and Co-Director of the Max Kade German-American Research Institute at Penn State University. He is the author of Palatines, Liberty, and Property: German Lutherans and Colonial British North America (1993), which was co-winner of the American Historical Association's 1993 John H. Dunning Prize.

• ContentsPrefaceA. G. Roeber“This Much Admired Man”: Isaac Glikhikan, Moravian DelawareDavid Edmunds I. Texts and Interpretive Perspectives1. Moravians and the Development of the Genre of EthnographyChristian F. Feest2. The Succession of Head Chiefs and the Delaware Culture of Consent: The Delaware Nation,David Zeisberger, and Modern EthnographyHermann Wellenreuther3. Zeisberger’s Diaries as a Source for Studying Delaware Sociopolitical OrganizationRobert S. GrumetII. Missions and Exchanges4. The Impossible Acculturation: French Missionaries and Cultural Exchanges in the Seventeenth CenturyDominique Deslandres5. The Holy See and the Conversion of Aboriginal Peoples in North America, 1760–1830Luca Codignola6. Policing Wabanaki Missions in the Seventeenth CenturyChristopher J. Bilodeau7. The Moravian Missionaries of Bethlehem and SalemRowena McClinton8. “Incline Your Second Ear This Way”: Song as a Cultural Mediator in Moravian Mission TownsWalter W. WoodwardIII. Indigenous Perspectives9. Munsee Social Networking and Political Encounters with the Moravian ChurchSiegrun Kaiser10. The Gender Frontier Revisited: Native American Women in the Age of RevolutionJane T. Merritt11. A Footing Among Them: Haudenosaunee Perspectives on Land Cessions, Government Relations, and ChristianityAlyssa Mt. PleasantIV. Conclusion12. Translation as a Prism: Broadening the Spectrum of Eighteenth-Century IdentityJulie Tomberlin WeberIndex

“The anthology succeeds in recovering Native as well as missionary voices, carefully building context to make those voices understandable to contemporary readers and reintroducing these important texts in exciting ways that will stimulate further study.”—R. A. Bucko Choice

A. G. Roeber is Professor of Early Modern History and Religious Studies and Co-Director of the Max Kade German-American Research Institute at Penn State University. He is the author of Palatines, Liberty, and Property: German Lutherans and Colonial British North America (1993), which was co-winner of the American Historical Association's 1993 John H. Dunning Prize.

• ContentsPrefaceA. G. Roeber“This Much Admired Man”: Isaac Glikhikan, Moravian DelawareDavid Edmunds I. Texts and Interpretive Perspectives1. Moravians and the Development of the Genre of EthnographyChristian F. Feest2. The Succession of Head Chiefs and the Delaware Culture of Consent: The Delaware Nation,David Zeisberger, and Modern EthnographyHermann Wellenreuther3. Zeisberger’s Diaries as a Source for Studying Delaware Sociopolitical OrganizationRobert S. GrumetII. Missions and Exchanges4. The Impossible Acculturation: French Missionaries and Cultural Exchanges in the Seventeenth CenturyDominique Deslandres5. The Holy See and the Conversion of Aboriginal Peoples in North America, 1760–1830Luca Codignola6. Policing Wabanaki Missions in the Seventeenth CenturyChristopher J. Bilodeau7. The Moravian Missionaries of Bethlehem and SalemRowena McClinton8. “Incline Your Second Ear This Way”: Song as a Cultural Mediator in Moravian Mission TownsWalter W. WoodwardIII. Indigenous Perspectives9. Munsee Social Networking and Political Encounters with the Moravian ChurchSiegrun Kaiser10. The Gender Frontier Revisited: Native American Women in the Age of RevolutionJane T. Merritt11. A Footing Among Them: Haudenosaunee Perspectives on Land Cessions, Government Relations, and ChristianityAlyssa Mt. PleasantIV. Conclusion12. Translation as a Prism: Broadening the Spectrum of Eighteenth-Century IdentityJulie Tomberlin WeberIndex

“The anthology succeeds in recovering Native as well as missionary voices, carefully building context to make those voices understandable to contemporary readers and reintroducing these important texts in exciting ways that will stimulate further study.”—R. A. Bucko Choice