The Brainerd Journal - A Mission to the Cherokees, 1817-1823 (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Indians of the Southeast
Release date:	July 2002
First published:	November 1998
Editors:	Joyce B. Phillips • Paul Gary Phillips
Foreword by:	Philip H. Viles Jr.
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 38mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / Cloth over boards
Pages:	586
ISBN-13:	978-0-8032-3718-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > American history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Biography > General
LSN:	0-8032-3718-9
Barcode:	9780803237186

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