Pacifist Prophet recounts the untold history of peaceable Native Americans in the eighteenth century as explored through the world of Papunhank (ca. 1705–75), a Munsee and Moravian prophet, preacher, reformer, and diplomat in Pennsylvania and the Ohio country.

 

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.