A section from the seventeenth-century “Jesuit Relations,” which presents the dying words of Chiwatenhwa, a legendary “first convert” among the Wendats.
Creators: Joseph Chiwatenhwa [Wendat]; Barthélemy Vimont; Paul Le Jeune; Jérôme Lalemant
Date of Creation: Printed 1642
Place of origin: Paris
Materials: Paper
Process by which it was made: Letter-press printing
Current location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania; Bibliothèque Nationale de France
An unpublished book that complicates the politics of Native-colonist relationships that became inflamed in the mid-1670s.
Creator: Daniel Gookin
Date of Creation: 1677
Place of origin: Massachusetts Bay Colony
Physical measurements: 300 [4], 99, [3] p. ; 21cm high and 17 cm wide
Materials: Paper and ink
Process by which it was made: Handwriting
Current location: The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Further Reading
Richard W. Cogley, John Eliot’s Mission to the Indians before King Philip’s War (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999).
Kristina Bross, Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians in Colonial America (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004).
David D. Hall, Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-making in Seventeenth-century New England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012).
J. Patrick Cesarini, “What Has Become of Your Praying to God?” Daniel Gookin’s Troubled History of King Philip’s War,” Early American Literature, Vol. 44, No. 3 (2009): 489-515.
Jenny Hale Pulsipher, “Massacre at Hurtleberry Hill: Christian Indians and English Authority in Metacom’s War,” William and Mary Quarterly Vol. 53, No. 3 (Jul., 1996): 459-486.
Information contributed by David D. Hall and Adrian Chastain Weimer.
