Samson Occom: Radical Hospitality in the Native Northeast Carr Ryan
Samson Occom: Radical Hospitality in the Native Northeast Carr Ryan The Mohegan-Brothertown minister Samson Occom (1723-1792) was a prominent political and religious leader of the Indigenous peoples…
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Samson Occom: Radical Hospitality in the Native Northeast Carr Ryan
The Mohegan-Brothertown minister Samson Occom (1723-1792) was a prominent political and religious leader of the Indigenous peoples of present-day New York and New England, among whom he is still revered today. In the 1770s, he helped found the nation of Brothertown, where Coastal Algonquian families seeking respite from colonialism built a new life on land given to them by the Oneida Nation. An international celebrity in his day, Occom rose to fame as the first Native person to be ordained a minister in the New England colonies.
Most of Occom's writings, however, have been overlooked, partly because many of them are about Christian themes that seem unrelated to Native life.In this groundbreaking book, Ryan Carr argues that Occom's writings were deeply Occom was a highly productive author, probably the most prolific Native American writer prior to the late nineteenth century.