dc.contributor.author	Daniels, Tyler Edward
dc.coverage.spatial	United States	en_US
dc.coverage.temporal	17th Century	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2024-06-24T20:08:30Z
dc.date.available	2024-06-24T20:08:30Z
dc.date.issued	2024-05-02
dc.identifier.other	b838002a-e059-4646-b355-12dc94872e9d	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10428/7186
dc.description.abstract	English colonization impacted the development of Native American religious practices and beliefs in the Puritan missions of seventeenth century New England. However, Native American spirituality and worldview also played an important role in how Algonquians interpreted Puritanism and correspondingly engaged with the Christian missionaries. The purpose of this study is to explore the motives and beliefs of Indigenous peoples in the New England missions from their own contextual worldview. Early colonial efforts in the 1620s and 1630s were understood by Algonquian groups in relation to their cosmological perspective. Devastating European diseases, unprecedented warfare, and foreign invaders were perceived as cultural and sacred breakdowns between Native peoples and other-than-human persons pervading their world. Spiritual power permeated the Algonquian landscape in connection to other-than-human beings. Moreover, the English settlers showcased resilient association with otherworldly beings and demonstrated potent forms of spiritual power, which led to Indigenous intrigue and fear of English spirituality. During the first missionizing efforts of the 1640s, Algonquian peoples connected their cultural ideas of the spiritual world with the English religion. Native leaders, such as the Nipmuck sachem Waban, the Massachusett sachem Cutshamekin, and the Penacook sachem Passaconaway, responded to environmental calamities and missionizing efforts in differing ways based on their cosmological understandings of English power in their rapidly changing context.	en_US
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dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.rights	This dissertation is protected by the Copyright Laws of the United States (Public Law 94-553, revised in 1976). Consistent with fair use as defined in the Copyright Laws, brief quotations from this material are allowed with proper acknowledgement. Use of the materials for financial gain with the author's expressed written permissions is not allowed.	en_US
dc.subject	Academic theses	en_US
dc.subject	History	en_US
dc.subject	United States -- History	en_US
dc.subject	Native American studies	en_US
dc.subject	Algonquian Indians	en_US
dc.subject	Cosmology	en_US
dc.subject	Indians of North America--Missions	en_US
dc.subject	Spirituality	en_US
dc.title	Spirits in Conflict: Sacred Disruptions and Narratives of Algonquian Spiritual Power in the Puritan Missionary Tracts	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Department of History	en_US
dc.description.advisor	Nooe, Evan
dc.description.committee	Haggard, Dixie
dc.description.committee	Aiello, Thomas
dc.description.committee	FitzGerald, Sarah
dc.description.committee	Wright, Miller
dc.description.degree	M.A.	en_US
dc.description.major	History	en_US