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The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America by Linford D. Fisher (review)

The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America by... Book Reviews{ 247 The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America Linford d. fisher New York: Oxford University Press, 2012 296 pp. Linford Fisher opens his important study of natives and Christianity in southern New England with a fascinating archaeological discovery. Archaeologists working on behalf of the Mashantucket Pequot Nation relocated a number of colonial-era graves in 1990. In one of the graves, they found the remains of a young girl buried with a variety of funerary objects. A medicine bundle from the site contained both the bones of a bear paw and a page ripped from a small Bible. The paper preserved verses from Psalm 98 that celebrated salvation for the heathen. The find perhaps poses more questions than it answers, but it does provide a nice illustration of the fluid boundaries between native and English Christian cultures. Fisher writes, "the medicine bundle seems like a broadly inclusive approach to the question of efficacious oversight in the afterlife" (7). Fisher offers this example to support his argument that native responses to Christianity took place in a messy social, cultural, and political context. The process and the results of religious change were http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early American Literature University of North Carolina Press

The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America by Linford D. Fisher (review)

Leavelle, Tracy Neal.
Early American Literature , Volume 49 (1) – Mar 9, 2014
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Book Reviews{ 247 The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America Linford d. fisher New York: Oxford University Press, 2012 296 pp. Linford Fisher opens his important study of natives and Christianity in southern New England with a fascinating archaeological discovery. Archaeologists working on behalf of the Mashantucket Pequot Nation relocated a number of colonial-era graves in 1990. In one of the graves, they found the remains of a young girl buried with a variety of funerary objects. A medicine bundle from the site contained both the bones of a bear paw and a page ripped from a small Bible. The paper preserved verses from Psalm 98 that celebrated salvation for the heathen. The find perhaps poses more questions than it answers, but it does provide a nice illustration of the fluid boundaries between native and English Christian cultures. Fisher writes, "the medicine bundle seems like a broadly inclusive approach to the question of efficacious oversight in the afterlife" (7). Fisher offers this example to support his argument that native responses to Christianity took place in a messy social, cultural, and political context. The process and the results of religious change were

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