List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Munsees’ World
2. Becoming a Prophet
3. Building Alliances
4. Captives Together
5. From Prophet to Guardian
6. New Trials
7. Ohio Endings
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Richard W. Pointer is a professor of history at Westmont
College. He is the author of Encounters of the Spirit: Native
Americans and European Colonial Religion and Protestant Pluralism
and the New York Experience: A Study of Eighteenth-Century
Religious Diversity.
"This intriguing biography of the Munsee leader Papunhank (1705–75)
adds another rich layer to recent scholarship on the complex world
between the Delaware and Ohio Rivers in the middle of the
eighteenth century. . . . A very useful work for college
and graduate courses."—D. R. Mandell, Choice
“Pacifist Prophet ushers onto the American stage a forgotten Native
leader who went not on the warpath but on the peace path. The book
has much to teach us about early America—and perhaps, too, about
our own turbulent times.”—James H. Merrell, author of Into the
American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier
“With engaging prose, scrupulous research, and great sensitivity,
Pointer treats the life of a single Native American man seeking
peace, stability, family, and place in a world of migration,
famine, pestilence, and war.”—Gregory Evans Dowd, author of A
Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity,
1745–1815
“In Pacifist Prophet Richard Pointer weaves a compelling biography
of the little-known Munsee and Moravian leader Papunhank, who
traversed the varied religious, political, and geographic terrain
from Philadelphia to the Ohio Valley in the turbulent middle
decades of the eighteenth century.”—Rachel M. Wheeler, author of To
Live upon Hope: Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century
Northeast
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