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Dry bones and Indian sermons : praying Indians in colonial America

Native converts to Christianity, dubbed "praying Indians" by seventeenth-century English missionaries, have long been imagined as benign cultural intermediaries between English settlers and "savages." More recently, praying Indians have been dismissed...
Print Book, English, 2004
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Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2004