Re: Vapor concerning Chavis/Gibson
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Re: Vapor concerning Chavis/Gibson
MaryE Watson 12/19/06
MaryE,
What can you share of the Christian Mission school attended by the wife of Lemuel Perry.I've found data concerning the theology taught by Christian Priber and by the Moravians.The Cherokee and the Chickasaw were among the earliest tribal groups to assimilate to European influences while retaining some of their own traditions.The Tuscarora were of the Iroquois Federation which invented their on form of Christianity as a defense against losing their own culture.
Larry
See excerpt from
http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9036002http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9036002
Seneca Indian chief who developed a new religion for the Iroquois (see Handsome Lake cult). The cult was so successful that in the 20th century several thousand Indians still adhered to it.
After a somewhat dissolute life, Ganioda'yo became seriously ill in 1799 and was near death. On his recovery he declared that he had been visited by three spirits, who revealed to him the will of the Great Spirit. From 1800, as an itinerant preacher of the religion that he called Gai'wiio (“Good Message”), he urged his people to refrain from adultery, drunkenness, laziness, and witchcraft. He explained his beliefs to Thomas Jefferson on the occasion of a visit to that president. His combination of old beliefs with Christian ethics provided the Iroquois with a faith that revitalized their civilization at a time when it was threatened with extinction by the white man's culture.
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Re: Vapor concerning Chavis/Gibson
MaryE Watson 12/19/06
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Larry Keels 12/19/06
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Re: Vapor concerning Chavis/Gibson
MaryE Watson 12/19/06
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Re: Vapor concerning Chavis/Gibson
Larry Keels 12/19/06
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Re: Vapor concerning Chavis/Gibson
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Re: Vapor concerning Chavis/Gibson
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Re: Vapor concerning Chavis/Gibson