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This volume brings together for the first time the known writings of the pioneering Native American religious and political leader, intellectual, and author, Samson Occom (Mohegan; 1723-1792). The largest surviving archive of American Indian writing before Charles Eastman (Santee Sioux; 1858-1939), Occom's writings offer unparalleled views into a Native American intellectual and cultural universe in the era of colonialization and the early United States. His letters, sermons, journals, prose, petitions, and hymns--many of them never before published--document the emergence of pantribal political consciousness among the Native peoples of New England as well as Native efforts to adapt Christianity as a tool of decolonialization. Presenting previously unpublished and newly recovered writings, this collection more than doubles available Native American writing from before 1800.
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Samson Occom was born in 1723 at Mohegan, near New London, Connecticut, and reared, according to his own account, "in heathenism" until he was between sixteen and seventeen years of age, when he was influenced by the exhortations of the Rev. James Davenport, an evangelist of the "Great Awakening, " to adopt the religion of his white neighbors.
From 1743 to 1747 Samson Occom was a docile and reasonably intelligent pupil of the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock, of Lebanon, being the first of the Indians to be trained by that clergyman.
Prevented by weakness of the eyes from taking a college course, in 1749 Occom became schoolmaster and minister to the Montauk tribe, on the eastern tip of Long Island, receiving £20 a year from the London Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, but supporting himself mainly by labors as a farmer, fisherman, cooper, and bookbinder. His success among the Indians attracted much attention and in 1759, despite his lack of theological training, he was ordained by the Long Island Presbytery. In 1761 he was sent by Dr. Wheelock on a mission to the Oneida tribe in New York and repeated the journey in the two years following. He left Montauk in 1764 for a home in his native Mohegan and at the end of the following year he accompanied Rev. Nathaniel Whitaker of Norwich, on a journey to England to secure money for Wheelock's Indian Charity School. Under the patronage of George Whitefield and his followers, including the second Earl of Dartmouth, the mission was an immediate success. An Indian preacher with the garb, mannerisms, and habits of thought of the Puritan divine was a novelty in England, and Occom attracted much attention. He conducted himself with great propriety, modesty, and dignity, winning for himself many friends. In the two years of their stay the envoys collected in England and Scotland over £12, 000.
Upon his return in 1768 Occom was disinclined to enter upon the missionary work among the Iroquois which Wheelock wished him to undertake, and was strongly opposed to his patron's plan to use the fund collected for the establishment of Dartmouth College; as a result the relations between the two men came to an end. Subsequently he acted as an itinerant preacher to the New England tribes and fell into extreme poverty and occasional intemperance. In 1773 he formed the plan of securing a grant of land from the Oneida tribe, upon which a selected group of New England Indians might settle and live there, undisturbed by encroachments of the whites. The movement was interrupted by the Revolution, but it was resumed in 1784, and Brothertown was established in the next year. Occom finally removed from Connecticut to that region in 1789 and spent the remainder of his life as pastor and adviser of his people. His appearance was dignified, his voice pleasant, his fluency in English sufficient to enable him to preach without notes, while in the Indian language his brethren esteemed him a great orator. He paid little attention to the dogmas of theology, but centered his efforts upon the emphasis of rules of personal conduct with the citation of simple and pertinent illustrations.
His Sermon Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul, a moving plea for temperance delivered in New Haven in 1772, was published and went through nineteen editions. He composed a number of hymns, the best known of which is "Awaked by Sinai's Awful Sound, " and published an Indian hymnal, A Choice Selection of Hymns (1774), which attained three editions. He was a sturdy and uncompromising leader of his people in resisting white encroachment upon Indian lands, an activity which brought upon him great unpopularity in Connecticut, and which was successful in preserving to his followers their possessions in New York.
Samson Occom founded a new settlement called "Brothertown" for Christian Indians in 1785 and was there a pastor. He even received a civil charter in 1787. Occom wrote the 10-page A Short Narrative of My Life (1768); Sermon at the Execution of Moses Paul (1772); A Choice Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1774). In World War II, the United States liberty ship SS Samson Occom was named in his honor. The Norwich, Connecticut neighborhood of Occum is named for Samson Occom. Occom is honored with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church (USA) on July 14.
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In the autumn of 1751, Samson Occom married Mary Fowler, a Montauk Indian, by whom he had ten children.
