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Technologies of resistance : Handsome Lake and Seneca responses to land alienation and Quaker missions, 2012
Technologies of resistance : Handsome Lake and Seneca responses to land alienation and Quaker missions, 2012
This thesis explores the connections between land alienation, colonialism and religious renewal in the life and teachings of Seneca religious leader Handsome Lake. In 1799, shortly after the arrival of three Quaker Missionaries at the Allegheny settlement of the Seneca Nation, Handsome Lake began to receive visions from the Great Spirit which reaffirmed traditional Seneca cosmology while integrating certain Christian elements. These visions also outlined a new way in which the Seneca ought to live, embodied in the Gaiwiio or “Good Word,” which is still recited on Seneca Reservations every y...
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Technologies of resistance : Handsome Lake and Seneca responses to land alienation and Quaker missions, 2012