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Pacifist Prophet: Papunhank and the Quest for Peace in Early America
By : Richard W. Pointer
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Book Synopsis :
Pacifist Prophet recounts the untold history of peaceable Native Americans in the eighteenth century, as explored through the world of Papunhank (ca. 1705?75), a Munsee and Moravian prophet, preacher, reformer, and diplomat. Papunhank?s life was dominated by a search for a peaceful homeland in Pennsylvania and the Ohio country amid the upheavals of the era between the Seven Years? War and the American Revolution. His efforts paralleled other Indian quests for autonomy but with a crucial twist: he was a pacifist committed to using only nonviolent means. Such an approach countered the messages of other Native prophets and ran against the tide in an early American world increasingly wrecked with violence, racial hatred, and political turmoil. Nevertheless, Papunhank was not alone. He followed and contributed to a longer and wider indigenous peace tradition. Richard W. Pointer shows how Papunhank pushed beyond the pragmatic pacifism of other Indians and developed from indigenous and
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Author : Richard W. Pointer
Pages : 424 pages
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
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ISBN-10 : 1496222865
ISBN-13 : 9781496222862
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