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Pacifist Prophet - Papunhank and the Quest for Peace in Early America (Hardcover)
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Pacifist Prophet - Papunhank and the Quest for Peace in Early America (Hardcover)
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Pacifist Prophet recounts the untold history of peaceable Native
Americans in the eighteenth century, as explored through the world
of Papunhank (ca. 1705-75), a Munsee and Moravian prophet,
preacher, reformer, and diplomat. Papunhank's life was dominated by
a search for a peaceful homeland in Pennsylvania and the Ohio
country amid the upheavals of the era between the Seven Years' War
and the American Revolution. His efforts paralleled other Indian
quests for autonomy but with a crucial twist: he was a pacifist
committed to using only nonviolent means. Such an approach
countered the messages of other Native prophets and ran against the
tide in an early American world increasingly wrecked with violence,
racial hatred, and political turmoil. Nevertheless, Papunhank was
not alone. He followed and contributed to a longer and wider
indigenous peace tradition. Richard W. Pointer shows how Papunhank
pushed beyond the pragmatic pacifism of other Indians and developed
from indigenous and Christian influences a principled pacifism that
became the driving force of his life and leadership. Hundreds of
Native people embraced his call to be "a great Lover of Peace" in
their quests for home. Against formidable odds, Papunhank's
prophetic message spoke boldly to Euro-American and Native centers
of power and kept many Indians alive during a time when their very
survival was constantly threatened. Papunhank's story sheds
critical new light on the responses of some Munsees, Delawares,
Mahicans, Nanticokes, and Conoys for whom the "way of war" was no
way at all.
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