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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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