Old Light on Separate Ways The Narragansett Diary of Joseph Fish, 1765-1776
Entry/Object ID
2003.1126.032
Description
"The writing of Indian mission history has long focused on initial periods of contact when missionaries played crucial roles in culture encounter. Only rarely does any study go beyond those first years to give us a glimpse of native peoplel, both Christians and traditionalists, struggling to survive in a strange and hostile world....Examining the lives of eighteenth-century Christian Indians suggests important lessons about both mission history and the wider field of native experience. The diary and letters of Joseph Fish provide just that sort of window into native life in the eighteenth century...."
Physical Description: Hardcover book
