Ethnographies And Exchanges: Native Americans, Moravians, And Catholics In Early North America (max Kade German-american Research Institute)

continued from front flap roeber Early Europeans settling in America would never have survived without the speaking Roman Catholics. These two help of Native American groups. European groups have provided some of Though histories of early America the richest records of the exchange acknowledge this today, that has not between early settlers and Native Americans. ume, whose chapters—by an international cast of contributors—are grouped in three parts: Texts and Interpretive Max Kade Perspectives, Missions and Exchanges, and Indigenous Perspectives. German-American Research Institute series a. g. roeber is Professor of Early u 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 the pennsylvania state university press university park, pennsylvania www.psupress.org 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. always been the case, and even today much work needs to be done to appreci- ethnographies and exchanges Editor A. G. Roeber introduces the vol- Native Americans, Moravians, and Catholics in Early North America Moravian Protestants, and French- ate more fully the nature of the interac- ethnographies and exchanges tions between the settlers and the “First Peoples” and to hear the impressions of, and exchanges between, these two groups. We also have much to learn about Native Americans as people— their cultures, their languages, their Native Americans, Moravians, and Catholics in Early North America views of the world, and their religious beliefs—and about their impressions of the early settlers. One avenue to recovering the history of these relations examines early records that sought to understand the First Peoples scientifically. Missionaries were among those who u Edited by a. g. roeber chronicled the exchange between early settlers and Native Americans. The diaries, letters, and journals of these early ethnographers are among the most valuable resources for recovering the languages, religions, cultures, and political makeup of the First Peoples. This volume explores the interactions of two isbn 978-0-271-03346-4 seventeenth- and eighteenth-century 90000 European settlement peoples with 9 780271 033464 penn state press Native Americans: German-speaking continued on back flap 01.Roeber FM-End 3/3/08 10:13 AM Page i Ethnographies and Exchanges 01.Roeber FM-End 3/3/08 10:13 AM Page ii Ethnographies and Exchanges, edited by A. G. Roeber, is published as part of the Max Kade German-American Research Institute Series. This series provides an outlet for books that reflect the mission of the Penn State Kade Institute: to integrate the history and culture of German-speakers in the Americas with the major themes of early modern scholarship from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. 01.Roeber FM-End 3/3/08 10:13 AM Page iii ETHNOGRAPHIES AND EXCHANGES Native Americans, Moravians, and Catholics in Early North America u Edited by A. G. Roeber the pennsylvania state university press university park, pennsylvania 01.Roeber FM-End 3/3/08 10:13 AM Page iv Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Roeber, A. G. (Anthony Gregg), 1949– Ethnographies and exchanges : Native Americans, Moravians, and Catho