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Reflections on the different states & conditions of society [manuscript] : with the outlines of a plan to ameliorate the circumstances of the Indians of North America.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hunter, John Dunn, 1798-1827, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Company for Propagation of the Gospel in New England and the Parts Adjacent in America.
- Christianity.
- Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation.
- Indians of North America.
- Missionaries.
- Osage Indians.
- Quapaw Indians.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Production:
- [Place of production not identified : producer not identified, 1823]
- Summary:
- Essay written in 1823 at the behest of the Company for Propagation of the Gospel in New England, in which Hunter portrays Indians as moral individuals who deserve to be saved from destruction and presents a plan to establish them on farm settlements.
- Notes:
- Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America was originally published in 2013, as American Indian Histories and Cultures. The title was changed in 2024.
- AM reference: VAULT Ayer MS 398.
- Indigenous Peoples metadata has been supplied by exonym as these are the terms most commonly used in the documents. Updates are being made to metadata to reference preferred names wherever possible. For more information on our approach to language and metadata in the resource visit the Language Statement.
- Description based on publisher-supplied metadata (viewed January 24, 2024).
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