Kathryn N. Gray – författare

Remembering the woman known as Pocahontas, and the myths surrounding her down to the present dayThis collection of essays is the first of its kind to focus exclusively on the woman known as Pocahontas. Contributions from established leaders in the field offer innovative perspectives on the life of Matoaka/Pocahontas, especially on the creation and perpetuation of her cultural image in the seventeenth century and beyond—and on how new archival research, interdisciplinary methodologies, and contemporary creative practice challenge that image. The chronological scope of this collection, compiled in honor of the late Monacan poet and historian Karenne Wood, illustrates the ongoing legacies of colonialism as they relate to recurring representations of and by Native American women.ContributorsKaren Kupperman, New York University, Helen Rountree, Old Dominion University, Karenne Wood, Virginia Humanities, Lucinda Rasmussen, University of Alberta, Camilla Townsend, Rutgers University, E. M. Rose, Oxford University, James Ring Adams, National Museum of the American Indian, Graziella Crezegut, independent scholar, Cristina L. Azocar, San Francisco State University, Ivana Markova, San Francisco State University, Stephanie Pratt, independent scholar, Sarah Sense, artist

Remembering the woman known as Pocahontas, and the myths surrounding her down to the present dayThis collection of essays is the first of its kind to focus exclusively on the woman known as Pocahontas. Contributions from established leaders in the field offer innovative perspectives on the life of Matoaka/Pocahontas, especially on the creation and perpetuation of her cultural image in the seventeenth century and beyond—and on how new archival research, interdisciplinary methodologies, and contemporary creative practice challenge that image. The chronological scope of this collection, compiled in honor of the late Monacan poet and historian Karenne Wood, illustrates the ongoing legacies of colonialism as they relate to recurring representations of and by Native American women.ContributorsKaren Kupperman, New York University, Helen Rountree, Old Dominion University, Karenne Wood, Virginia Humanities, Lucinda Rasmussen, University of Alberta, Camilla Townsend, Rutgers University, E. M. Rose, Oxford University, James Ring Adams, National Museum of the American Indian, Graziella Crezegut, independent scholar, Cristina L. Azocar, San Francisco State University, Ivana Markova, San Francisco State University, Stephanie Pratt, independent scholar, Sarah Sense, artist

This book traces the development of John Eliot’s mission to the Algonquian-speaking people of Massachusetts Bay, from his arrival in 1631 until his death in 1690. It explores John Eliot’s determination to use the Massachusett dialect of Algonquian, both in speech and in print, as a language of conversion and Christianity. The book analyzes the spoken words of religious conversion and the written transcription of those narratives; it also considers the Algonquian language texts and English language texts which Eliot published to support the mission. Central to this study is an insistence that John Eliot consciously situated his mission within a tapestry of contesting transatlantic and political forces, and that this framework had a direct impact on the ways in which Native American penitents shaped and contested their Christian identities. To that end, the study begins by examining John Eliot’s transatlantic network of correspondents and missionary-supporters in England, it then considers the impact of conversion narratives in spoken and written forms, and ends by evaluating the impact of literacy on praying Indian communities. The study maps the coalescence of different communities that shaped, or were shaped by, Eliot’s seventeenth-century mission.