The tutor'd mind
Subtitle: Indian missionary-writers in antebellum America
By: Bernd C. Peyer.
Series: Native Americans of the Northeast
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
Subjects: American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Indians of North America -- New England -- Intellectual life; Christian literature, American -- History and criticism; Indians of North America -- New England -- Historiography; Missionaries -- New England -- Historiography; Protestantism and literature; Missionaries in literature; Indians in literature
Description: Part historical narrative, part textual analysis, this book traces the development of American Indian literature from the seventeenth century to the eve of the Civil War. Bernd C.

Peyer focuses on the lives and writings of four prominent Indian missionaries - Samson Occom of the Mohegans, William Apess of the Pequots, Elias Boudinot of the Cherokees, and George Copway of the Ojibwas - each of whom struggled to negotiate a secure place between the imperatives of colonial rule and the rights of native peoples.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-392) and index.