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Book List:
Basic Quakerism
Corporate Discernment

A Friend Among The Senecas

A Friend Among The Senecas

A Friend Among The Senecas

The Quaker Mission To Cornplanter's People

BY DAVID SWATZLER

Brief Description:
This account of a 1799 Quaker mission to a Seneca village in northwestern Pennsylvania is based on the journal of Henry Simmons and offers a captivating look at Seneca culture of the period-their festivals and games, division of labor, and fascinating cult of dreams that effected many of their actions. The perceptive Chief Cornplanter, realizing that his people must adapt to new social and economic patterns, welcomed the Quakers as teachers, not so much for their religion, but for their knowledge of agriculture.

Stackpole Books 2000 319 PP. Cloth

$24.95 (in stock)

 

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