RT Article
T1 After Gnadenhütten: The Moravian Indian Mission in the Old Northwest, 1782-1812
JF Journal of Moravian history
VO 17
IS 1
SP 27
OP 57
A1 Fisher, Kyle
LA English
PB Penn State Univ. Press
YR 2017
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1572106387
AB This article examines the Moravian missions to Native Americans in the Old Northwest after the massacre of ninety-six Christian Indians at Gnadenhütten, Ohio, in 1782. It argues that the missions grew after the massacre despite the trauma of the event. Natives continued to find the Moravian culture centered on a theology of the suffering Savior a compelling reason to join the church, often in the context of famine, alcoholism, and displacement among Native communities. However, as seen in the White River mission in Indiana, nativist resistance movements presented an alternative to Moravian mission culture and prevented the missions from expanding westward. Missions in Ohio eventually declined because of pressures associated with rapid white settlement. While the Gnadenhütten massacre did not destroy the missions, it affected the way Indians interacted with Moravian Christianity.
K1 Christianity
K1 Theology
K1 Baptism
K1 Christian missionaries
K1 White people
K1 Massacres
K1 Nativism
K1 Religious rituals
K1 Towns
K1 Tribal land
DO 10.5325/jmorahist.17.1.0027