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Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan: Leadership and Literature in Eighteenth-Century Native America.(American Indian Nonfiction: An Anthology of Writings, 1760s-1930s)(Book review)
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Early American Literature
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January 1, 2008
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- Sayre, Gordon M.
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Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan: Leadership and Literature in Eighteenth-Century Native America
EDITED BY JOANNA BROOKS, WITH A FOREWORD BY ROBERT WARRIOR
New York: Oxford University Press, 2006
445 PP.
American Indian Nonfiction: An Anthology of Writings, 1760s-1930s.
EDITED BY BERND C. PEYER
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007
401 pp.
The covers of both these books feature The Reverend Samson Occom, a mezzotint copy of a portrait painted by Mason Chamberlin (1727-1787) during Occom's tour of Britain in 1765-1768. As was common in eighteenth-century portraiture, Occom is finely dressed and poses alongside emblematic ...