ID - 118337091 TI - Calvinists and Indians in the northeastern woodlands PY - 2023 SN - 9789048555529 9789463723770 PB - Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press DB - UniCat KW - Indians of North America KW - Reformation KW - HISTORY / Native American. KW - Protestant Reformation KW - Church history KW - Counter-Reformation KW - Protestantism KW - Missions. KW - Influence. KW - History KW - Empire and Colonialism, Native American and Indigenous History, Atlantic History, Dutch Republic, Dutch Calvinism. KW - Missions KW - History of North America KW - anno 1500-1599 KW - anno 1600-1699 KW - anno 1700-1799 KW - Calvinists KW - Dutch KW - Government relations. KW - New Netherland KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118337091 AB - In <i>Calvinists and Indians in the Northeastern Woodlands</i>, Stephen T. Staggs analyzes the impact of the Dutch Reformation upon the cross-cultural relations between those living in and around New Netherland. Staggs shows that Native Americans and New Netherlanders hunted, smoked, ate, and drank together, shared their faith while traveling in a canoe, and slept in each other's bedrooms. Such details emerge in documents written by New Netherlanders like Megapolensis. Author of the most accurate account of the Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawks) by a Dutch Reformed minister, Megapolensis provides a window into the influence and limits of the Dutch Reformation upon the dynamic, multifaceted relationships that developed in the early modern Northeastern Woodlands.<br><br>Megapolensis came of age when Dutch Reformed theologians looked to the Bible to incorporate Indians into a Reformed worldview. In so doing, they characterized Indians as 'blind Gentiles' to whom the Dutch were being called, by God, to present the gospel through the preaching of the Bible and the Christian conduct of colonists, which necessitated social interaction. This characterization ultimately informed the instructions given to those heading to New Netherland, raised expectations among the clergy and lay chaplains who served in the colony, and prefigured the reciprocal, intimate relationships that developed between Indians and New Netherlanders during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. ER -