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Brainerd Journal: A Mission to the Cherokees, 1817-1823

Brainerd Journal: A Mission to the Cherokees, 1817-1823

Phillips, Joyce B.
Phillips, Paul Gary
Viles Jr, Philip H.

Hardcover

Series: Indians of the Southeast

Native American History

Publisher Price: $70.00

ISBN10: 0803237189
ISBN13: 9780803237186
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Nov 1 1998
Pages: 586
Weight: 2.16
Height: 1.45 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.22
Language: English
The journal of the Brainerd Mission is an indispensable source for understanding Cherokee culture and history during the early nineteenth century. The interdenominational mission was located in the heart of Cherokee country near present-day Chattanooga. For seven years the Brainerd missionaries kept a journal describing their lives and those of their charges. Although the journal has long been recognized as a significant primary document, it was not fully transcribed or made widely available until now.

The journal entries provide a richly textured and sensitive look at Cherokee life and American missionary activities during the early nineteenth century. They shed new light on the daily lives and personalities of individual Cherokees, as well as on poorly understood aspects of Cherokee politics and religion. The journal provides interesting ethnographic details concerning Cherokee council meetings, ceremonial occasions, gender relations, and the internal social and political tensions among families. Of equal interest are the complex and often conflicted attitudes of the missionaries, who were interested in Cherokee traditional culture but simultaneously worked to change it.

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