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  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. Cosmopuritanism
  8. 2. Believing in Piety
  9. 3. Waiting for the Beginning
  10. 4. Rethinking Reciprocity
  11. 5. Beyond Understanding
  12. Notes
  13. Index
  14. About the Author

Index

Aberle, David, 112

Acts and Monuments (Foxe), 149

Aeneas, 58

Aeneid (Virgil), 58

Afropessimism, 12

Agamemnon (Greek mythology), 122

alchemy, 116–17

Alfred, Taiaiake, 43, 123

Algonquian peoples, 39, 59, 139–40, 156; converts, 79–80, 114; cosmology, 60; reciprocity, 103–4, 116, 120–21; traditions, 68, 71, 74, 87–88, 100, 115–16, 118

Allen, Paula Gunn, 124–25

altruism, 106

Ambrose, Isaac, 137–38, 141

American Jeremiad, The (Bercovitch), 42

American thought, 129–30

Amory, Hugh, 68–70, 73–74

Analects, The (Confucius), 106

Andrews, Edward, 64–65, 67

“Anthropologists and Other Friends” (Deloria), 4–5

anthropology, 4–5, 9, 13, 107, 109–10, 112, 121

anticolonialism, 54

Appadurai, Arjun, 121

Aravamudan, Srinivas, 147

Arendt, Hannah, 157

Ascham, Roger, 33–34

authenticity, 67

Baker, Richard, 148, 152

Baldwin, James, 75

Bataille, Georges, 117

Bauer, Ralph, 34

bear paw. See bundle

benevolence, 105

Ben-Svi, Yael, 147–48

Bercovitch, Sacvan, 24, 42–43

Berkhofer, Robert, Jr., 10–11

Berlant, Lauren, 15, 24

Bhabha, Homi, 41, 43

Bible, 25, 68–69, 76, 103–4, 148

Bishop, Bridget, 71–72

Blackburn, Elizabeth, 82

Black Hills, 122

bodies, 82, 104

Bororo, 111

Bradford, William, 29–30, 32, 34, 41

Bradstreet, Ann, 116

Bragdon, Kathleen, 139–40

Brazil, 110–12

Brooks, James, 3

Brooks, Joanna, 66, 75, 149

Brooks, Lisa, 14, 31, 55, 60, 96–97, 99, 100, 101, 113, 118, 124

Brown, Frank, 71–72

Brown, Matthew, 60

bundle, ritual burial, 68–70, 73–74

Bureau of Indian Affairs, 104

Burnet, John, 91

Bush, George W., 23

Byrd, Jodi, 7, 43

Calhoun, Craig, 25

Calvinism, 15, 22, 60, 73

capitalism, 51, 104

Carayon, Céline, 135–36

Cartier, Jacques, 136

Cassacinamon, Robin, 69

Ceci, Lynn, 40

charity, 31

Cheah, Pheng, 28

Child, Lydia Maria, 21–23

Christianity, 5, 6–7

Christian universalist, 25

chromosome health, 82

Church of England, 24

civilizing mission, 33, 40, 100

class, 10

Clement, Cotton, 85

Clifford, James, 28

Clinton, Bill, 44

Clinton, George W., 80

Clytaemnestra (Greek mythology), 122

Cold War, 26

collectivity, 67–68

Collier, John, 104, 112

colonialism, 5, 6–7, 9, 52, 56, 58–59, 123; French, 135

Columbus, Christopher, 136

Common Pot, The (Brooks), 113, 115

communication systems, 4

comprehension, 129–30

Confession of Faith of Certayn English People (Ainsworth), 35

Confidence-Man, The, 21, 45–46

Confucius, 106, 114

Connecticut Colony, 116

Constitution of the United States, 54

Conversion of an Indian, in a Letter to a Friend, The, 149, 150

converts, Native Christian, 23, 31, 36–37, 55, 63, 69, 114, 138–39, 148

Coryate, Thomas, 34

cosmography, 40–41

cosmology, 2, 8, 23, 56, 86, 105

cosmopolitanism, 3, 5, 8, 16, 18, 23, 25, 26–28, 31, 40, 46; academic, 44–45; dialogical, 43; secular, 33–34

cosmopuritanism, 32–33, 47–48

Cotton, John, 36, 115

Coulthard, Glen, 102, 125–26

covenant, 31

Cowboy–Indian Alliance, 157

Creole, 53

Crudities (Coryate), 34

culture, 3–4, 5, 7, 9–10, 59–60, 73, 84; distinctiveness, 66; reciprocity and, 104, 118–19, 125–26

Cushman, Robert, 37–38, 41

Custer Died for Your Sins (Deloria), 57

Danforth, Samuel, 36–37, 38

Darby, Seward, 131

“Declaration of the Lords and Commons Assembled at Oxford, A,” 103

decolonization, 11, 13, 82

deeds, land, 31

de la Cadena, Marisol, 154–55

Deloria, Vine, Jr., 4–5, 57, 79, 82, 123, 125, 131–33

DeLucia, Christine, 17

democracy, 27–28, 109–10, 117

Diamond, Jared, 55

displacement, Indigenous, 7

dispossession, 17, 31, 37–38, 50, 95

Dryden, John, 58

Easton, John, 96

economic systems, 39, 53, 86, 104–5, 127

Edmundson, William, 79, 91, 94, 100

Edwards, Jonathan, 130

“Element of Piety, An” (Momaday), 49

Eliot, John (missionary), 79, 84, 85, 87, 114, 137–38

Eliott, Sir John, 55

Elizabeth I, Queen, 33

Ellison, Ralph, 70

emotion, 83–84

Enos, Ryan, 131

equality, 27

Equiano, Olaudah, 1–3, 5, 16, 19, 23, 64, 86, 134, 145–47, 148–53, 154, 156

equivocation, 13–14, 18

Essay of the Meanes How to Make Our Trauailes (Palmer), 34

Essay towards an Instruction for the Indians, An (Wilson), 149, 150

ethnocentrism, 6

Euthyphro (Plato), 59

exceptionalism, 24, 25, 50, 59

exchange, economic, 39–40, 118

exile, 29–31

exile theory, 41–43

Exodus 6:4, 29

exploitation, 27

Fabian, Johannes, 87

faculties, mental, 141

Faith and Boundaries (Silverman), 63–64

Fanon, Frantz, 28, 126

Faulkner, William, 14

feminism, 60

Fessenden, Tracy, 61–62, 65

Finseth, Ian, 147–48

Fixico, Donald, 132–33

Foster, Stephen, 49, 75

Fox, George, 88, 89

Foxe, John, 149

French colonialism, 135

Friends. See Society of Friends

friendship, 147–48, 151–52

Fuentes, Carlos, 44

future orientation, 13, 37, 53, 104, 122

Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 141–43, 144

Garrison, James, 50, 58

Garroutte, Eva, 126

George, King, 148

George, Prince, 1–3, 5, 16, 19, 23, 64, 86, 134, 145–46, 148–53, 156

George Fox Digg’d Out of His Burrows (Williams), 79, 90, 91–93

gift giving, 110, 121, 127

Ginzburg, Carlo, 76

Giving Tree, The (Silverstein), 16

Glissant, Édouard, 6, 9–10, 14, 143, 155–56

globalization, 26

Goddard, Ives, 139–40

God Is Red (Deloria), 57, 123

Golden Rule, 106, 114

Gordimer, Nadine, 44

grace, gift of, 114

Greenblatt, Stephen, 43–45, 137

Greider, Carol W., 82

Guanahaní peoples, 136

Gulliver’s Travels (Swift), 59

Gutmann, Amy, 109–10, 117

Hackney, Sheldon, 27

Hall, David, 65

Hall, Jeffrey C., 82

Hallowell, Irving, 144–45

Harjo, Joy, 26, 46–47, 134, 158

Harney, Stefano, 154, 158

Harris, William, 91

Hartman, Saidiya, 14, 133

Haudenosaunee, 122

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 22, 23

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 107, 109, 110, 123

Heidegger, Martin, 142

hierarchicalism, 118–20

historiography, 2–3, 6, 9, 14, 54, 55, 68, 102, 136–37

Hobbes, Thomas, 109, 140–41, 142

Hobomok, a Tale of Early Times (Child), 21–23

Hopi, 122

Horton, Benjamin, 71, 73

House Made of Dawn (Momaday), 50, 129

Howe, Susan, 14

humanism, 28, 81, 86, 137

Hutchinson, Anne, 56

Hyde, Carrie, 32

identification, 14

identity, 7, 13, 27, 54–55, 67, 126

imagination, 8, 10

impatience, 82–83

imperialism, 7

“Indian question,” 80

Indigenous refusal, 154

individualism, 110, 134, 143, 147

information technology, 4

inner light, 88–90, 92–93

Interesting Narrative (Equiano), 145–46, 152

Invention of Culture, The (Wagner), 129

Irish, 122

Islam, 60

Itinerary Written by Fines Morrison, Gent. (Morrison), 34

Jacket, Red, 80, 87

Jamaica, 1–2, 86, 145

James (Biblical figure), 85

James, William, 142

jeremiad, 42, 45, 62

Jesuits, 25, 127

Jews, 31

Job (Biblical figure), 85–86

John 15.14, 115

justice, 18, 27, 122, 157

Kant, Immanuel, 141–42

Kauffman, Michael, 51

Keohane, Robert, 108

Key into the Language of America, A (Williams), 18, 30, 90, 100

Keywords, 7–9

Kibbey, Ann, 36

King Philip’s War, 31, 96, 103, 118, 119

Kings 4:29, 140

Kings 18:21, 146

kinship, 7, 18, 58, 85, 86, 104, 110, 112, 120

Knight, Janice, 60

Kutquen (Kwinitekw), 99

land repatriation, 11

language, 1–3, 8, 11, 18, 81, 87, 126–27, 138–39, 142

Leiden, 34–35, 37, 59

Leviathan (Hobbes), 109, 140–41

Levine, Robert, 83

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 103, 105, 107, 110–12, 115, 119

liberalism, 27–28, 54, 146

Lincoln, Kenneth, 112

Linebaugh, Peter, 148

literacy, 2, 4, 150–51

“Locating an Ethical Native Criticism” (Brooks), 113

Locke, John, 108

Lorde, Audre, 154, 158

Low Countries, 35

Luis de Velasco, Don, 127

Lynch, Thomas, 86

Lyons, Scott Richard, 63, 126–27

magical world, 72–73, 74–75

Mahmood, Saba, 60

Malinowski, Bronislaw, 110

Mallios, Seth, 118

Mandell, Daniel, 66

Man Made of Words, The, 1

Many-Headed Hydra, The (Linebaugh and Rediker), 148

Marrant, John, 75

marriage, 86

Martha’s Vineyard, 63

Martin, Joel, 63, 66

Mashpee, 140

Massachusett language, 120, 139–40

Massachusetts Bay, 30, 61

Massasoit (Wampanoag), 37

mass communication, 131

Mather, Cotton, 30–31, 41

Mauss, Marcel, 107, 110

McBride, Kevin, 68, 69–70, 74

Media (Ambrose), 137–38

Melville, Herman, 21, 45–46

Merrell, James, 8, 10

Metacom (Wampanoag), 95–96

Middle Ground, The (White), 135

Mignolo, Walter, 60

millennium, 31

Miller, Perry, 59–60, 129–30, 138

Miskito, 5, 150

Miskito Prince. See George, Prince

missionary work, 6, 50, 54, 64, 79

misunderstanding. See under understanding

“Modell of Christian Charity, A,” 31, 119

Mohican, 64

Momaday, N. Scott, 1, 8, 10, 49–50, 76, 102, 129, 130

Monequassun (Algonquian convert), 79–80, 87

Morning Star, 1–3, 5, 154

Morrison, Kenneth, 6, 17

Morton, Thomas, 22, 23, 42–43

mortuary rituals, 69–70

Moten, Fred, 154, 158

Mouffe, Chantal, 27

Murison, Justine, 60

Mvskoke Creek, 46

Mystic river, 39–40

Nameaug plantation, 69

Narragansett, 30, 88–89, 90, 97, 99–100

Nashe, Thomas, 34

Natick (Massachusetts Bay), 79

nationalism, 28, 34, 40, 43, 44, 126; Christian, 32–33

Native American Renaissance (Lincoln), 112

Native Americans, Christianity, and the Reshaping of the American Religious Landscape (Martin and Nicholas), 63

Native Studies Keywords, 7–9

Navajo, 122

New-England Fire-Brand Quenched, A (Society of Friends), 93–94

Nicholas, Mark, 63, 66

Nipmuc, 97

nonconformist settler Christians, 21–22, 23, 24–25, 32, 47, 94, 113–14, 156

nonhuman agents, 117, 123–24

Nussbaum, Martha, 27

Occom, Samson, 18, 75

Oceti Sakowin, 122

Off the Reservation (Gunn Allen), 124

“Of the foure Humours in Mans constitution” (Bradstreet), 116

Ojibwe, 126–27, 144

Old House in Cutchogue, 71–72

Ong, Walter, 85

ontological turn, 13

Oresteia (Aeschylus), 122

Ortiz, Simon, 16

Oxford English Dictionary, 60, 86–87, 107

Palmer, Thomas, 34

Paracelsianism, 116–17

parasitical objects, 68–71, 74–75

Parker, Ely, 87

Parks, Rosa, 82

patience, 3, 5–6, 8, 18, 85–88, 98–102, 156; Quaker, 16, 89, 90–92, 94–95, 97; time and, 79–80, 81–85

patriarchy, 56

Paul (Biblical figure), 30

Peace of Westphalia, 107, 110

People of the Dawnland, 118, 120, 130

Pequot, 16, 40, 68–70, 73, 100, 117

Pequot War of 1637, 39–40, 46, 69, 73

Peru, 156–57

Petonowowet (Benjamin), 96

Peyote Religion among the Navaho, The (Aberle), 112

phenomenology, 145

Phenomenology of Spirit, The (Hegel), 107, 109

Philip, King. See Metacom

piety, 3, 5, 49–50, 74, 76; definition, 60; history of, 53–56, 57–59, 61–62; incidence rate, 51; Indigenous, 52, 70; popular, 65–66; resistance and, 62–68

pilgrim, figure of, 29–30, 32

Plato, 59

Plymouth Colony, 29–32, 96, 129

Pocahontas, 127

Pocasset, 95–96

poetry, 14, 29, 32, 34, 41, 46, 156

Politics of Piety (Mahmood), 60

Ponca, 157

poppets, 71–73, 74, 76

Posey, Alexander, 49–50, 63

postmodernism, 11

poststructuralism, 4

power, 103, 106

prayer, 138–39

Prince George. See George, Prince

Printer, James, 99

Proverbs 4:5, 140

Providence Plantations, 16, 88–89, 91, 94, 95, 98

Psalm 98, 71

psychology, 137–38

Pulsipher, Jenny, 119–20

Puritans, 15, 21–22, 24–25, 31, 40, 137, 158; knowledge and, 51–52, 129; piety and, 59–60, 62

Quakers. See Society of Friends

queer theory, 12, 13

Quin, Daniel, 148

Quran, 60

race, 10, 64, 131

radical indigenism, 126

Real Indians (Garroutte), 126

“Reasons and Considerations” (Cushman), 37

reciprocity, 3, 5, 8, 16, 18, 110–11, 113, 121–22, 125, 127; settler, 106–9, 112, 114–16, 117; violent, 4, 18, 104–5, 118–20

Rediker, Marcus, 148

Red Power, 132

relationality, 113

religious experiences, Indigenous, 62–63

repatriation, land, 11

Representations of the Intellectual (Said), 21

resistance, 7, 11, 22, 53, 62–68, 87, 119, 154

Riding, Laura, 1

Robbins, Bruce, 28

Robinson, John, 59

Romans 12:15, 114

Rorty, Richard, 27

Rosbash, Michael, 82

Rowlandson, Mary, 99

sacred, 1, 18

Said, Edward, 21, 41–42

Salem witch trials, 70–71

Salisbury, Neal, 24

salt, sharing of, 115

savage, figure of, 40, 56

Scarlet Letter, The (Hawthorne), 22

School-master, The (Ascham), 33

Scrooby congregation, 34–35

Scudder, Henry, 85

Seeing with a Native Eye (Toelken), 112

Sendero Luminoso, 156

Seneca, 80, 87

Senier, Siobhan, 14

September 11, 2001, attacks, 23–24

settlement, 36–38, 55

sexuality, 86

Shepard, Thomas, 138–39, 141

Shoemaker, Nancy, 135

silence, 152–53, 154

Silk, Joan, 120

Silverman, David, 63–64, 112–13, 119

Silverstein, Shel, 16

Simpson, Audra, 15, 154

Sincere Convert, The (Shepard), 138–39

slavery, 146–47, 150

Smith, John, 127

Society of Friends, 16, 25, 88–91, 93–94, 95, 97–98

Sopranos, The, 120

Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), 50

sovereignty, 13, 15, 68, 96, 97, 108, 117, 123, 128, 132, 155

Stein, Jordan, 60

St. George, Robert, 71–73

Strange Likeness, A (Shoemaker), 135

Swift, Jonathan, 59

sympathy, 113–14

Szostak, Jack W., 82

Tanderup, Art, 157

Tears of Repentance (Eliot), 79–80

Telling, The (Riding), 1

temporality. See time

Theidon, Kimberly, 156–57

Thirty Years’ War, 107

Thomas, Keith, 73

Thomas, Nicholas, 69, 123

Thompson, Dennis, 109–10

Throckmorton, John, 91–92

time, 6, 14, 34, 73, 81–85, 97–98, 121–22, 127–28, 133

Time and the Other (Fabian), 87

Tinker, George, 43, 50

Tisquantam (Patuxet), 39

Toelken, Barre, 112

To Live upon Hope (Wheeler), 64

Translation of Dr Apelles, The (Treuer), 154

travel accounts, 33–34

treaties, 6, 30, 31, 107–8

Treuer, David, 154

tribal recognition, 62–63

Tristes Tropiques (Lévi-Strauss), 103, 110–11

trust, 6

Truth and Method (Gadamer), 141

Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Peru), 156–57

typology, 25

Underhill, John, 100

understanding, 3, 5, 6–7, 8, 18, 130–32, 139–40, 154–58; definition of, 137; knowledge and, 133, 141–44; misunderstanding, 4, 129, 134, 135–37, 144

UNESCO, 130–31

Unfortunate Traveller (Nashe), 34

universalism, 31, 47

utopia, 133

Van Engen, Abram, 114, 137

vanishing Indian myth, 23

Virgil (poet), 58

virtues, 85

Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo, 13

Vizenor, Gerald, 13, 128

Wabanaki, 118

Wagner, Roy, 129, 140

Wakely, John, 118

Wampanoag, 37, 63, 95–97, 99, 112–13

Wampum, 40, 73

war practices: European, 40; Native, 99–100, 104

Water Protectors, 119

Weaver, Jace, 38–39

Weber, Max, 50–51

Weetamoo, 95–97

We Talk, You Listen (Deloria), 79, 124

Wheeler, Rachel, 64

White, Richard, 135

wilderness, 32

Williams, Raymond, 8–9, 10

Williams, Roger, 16, 18, 30, 61, 79, 88–95, 97–100

Wilson, Rob, 26

Wilson, Thomas, 149

Winiarski, Douglas, 54, 65–66

Winslow, Edward, 34

Winthrop, John, Jr., 69, 116

Wituwamat (Massachusett man), 59

Woodward, Walter, 116

Wright, Goodman, 103–5, 118

xenophobia, 23, 28–29, 47

Yellowknives Dene, 125

Young, Michael W., 82

Younge, Richard, 85

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The University of Minnesota Press gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance provided for the publication of this book by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Portions of the Introduction and chapter 5 are adapted from “‘Between Friends and Enemies’: Moving Books and Locating Native Critique in Early Colonial America,” in The World, the Text, and the Indian: Global Dimensions of Native American Literature, ed. Scott Richard Lyons, 103–27 (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2017). Portions of chapter 2 are adapted from “Believing in Piety: Spiritual Transformation across Cultures in Early New England,” in Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas, ed. Stephanie Kirk and Sarah Rivett, 161–79 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014). Portions of chapter 5 are adapted from the author’s review of Eloquence Embodied: Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas by Celine Carayon, NAIS 8, no 1 (2021): 198–200.

Excerpts from “In Mystic,” from Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poem , by Joy Harjo, copyright 2015 by Joy Harjo. Reprinted by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

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