Pacifist Prophet

Richard W. Pointer is a professor of history at Westmont College. He is the author of Encounters of the Spirit: Native Americans and European Colonial Religion and Protestant Pluralism and the New York Experience: A Study of Eighteenth-Century Religious Diversity.

• List of Figures    Acknowledgments    Introduction    1. The Munsees’ World    2. Becoming a Prophet    3. Building Alliances    4. Captives Together    5. From Prophet to Guardian    6. New Trials    7. Ohio Endings    Epilogue    Notes    Bibliography    Index

"This intriguing biography of the Munsee leader Papunhank (1705–75) adds another rich layer to recent scholarship on the complex world between the Delaware and Ohio Rivers in the middle of the eighteenth century. . . . A very useful work for college and graduate courses."-D. R. Mandell, Choice “Pacifist Prophet ushers onto the American stage a forgotten Native leader who went not on the warpath but on the peace path. The book has much to teach us about early America-and perhaps, too, about our own turbulent times.”-James H. Merrell, author of Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier “With engaging prose, scrupulous research, and great sensitivity, Pointer treats the life of a single Native American man seeking peace, stability, family, and place in a world of migration, famine, pestilence, and war.”-Gregory Evans Dowd, author of A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745–1815 “In Pacifist Prophet Richard Pointer weaves a compelling biography of the little-known Munsee and Moravian leader Papunhank, who traversed the varied religious, political, and geographic terrain from Philadelphia to the Ohio Valley in the turbulent middle decades of the eighteenth century.”-Rachel M. Wheeler, author of To Live upon Hope: Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast