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"Gideon's People" is the story of an American Indian community in
the Housatonic Valley of northwestern Connecticut. It is based on
some three decades of nearly uninterrupted German-language diaries
and allied records kept by the Moravian missionaries who had joined
the Indians at a place called Pachgatgoch, later Schaghticoke. It
is supplemented by colonial records and regional political, social,
and religious histories and ethnographies. As such, it represents
the only comprehensive, thoroughly contextualized description of a
Native people in southern New England and adjacent eastern New York
for the mid-eighteenth century.
The Moravians' diaries report on the day-to-day activities in the
community, including house-building, the production of material
goods, hunting, fishing, and farming. We are told of marriages,
births, deaths, disease, and the calamity of alcohol abuse. The
unavoidable interactions with surrounding Indians and close-by
colonial farmers and townspeople are offered in detail, along with
the sometimes contentious relations with local and colonial
authorities. And there is the omnipresence of the missionaries'
religious message to the Indians, frequently accepted and then
tested by the inevitable temptations and, more than once, spurned.
But we also learn of the struggles of the Moravians to feed and
clothe themselves at a distance from their congregation in
Bethlehem and their endeavors, often marked by conflict and deep
personal pain, to lead their Native flock to the Lamb.
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