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    The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees

    Rowena McClinton (Edited by), Rowena McClinton (Introduction by)

    9780803220959

    Paperback / softback, published 1 December 2010

    184 pages, 1 illustration, 2 maps
    21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.264 kg

    "McClinton's excellent volume can be used in classrooms to highlight the effects of cultural change in an Indian community."—Adam Pratt, North Carolina Historical Review

    In 1801 the Moravians, a Pietist German-speaking group from Central Europe, founded the Springplace Mission at a site in present-day northwestern Georgia. The Moravians remained among the Cherokees for more than thirty years, longer than any other Christian group. John and Anna Rosina Gambold served at the mission from 1805 until Anna's death in 1821. Anna, the principal author of the diaries, chronicles the intimate details of Cherokee daily life for seventeen years.
     
    Anna describes mission life and what she heard and saw at Springplace: food preparation and consumption, transactions pertaining to land, Cherokee body ornaments, conjuring, Cherokee law and punishment, Green Corn ceremonies, ball play, and matriarchal and marriage traditions. She similarly recounts stories she heard about rainmaking, the origins of the Cherokee people, and how she herself conversed with curious Cherokees about Christian images and fixtures. She also recalls earthquakes, conversions, notable visitors, annuity distributions, and illnesses.
     
    This abridged edition offers selected excerpts from the definitive edition of the Springplace diary, enabling significant themes and events of Cherokee culture and history to emerge. Anna's carefully recorded observations reveal the Cherokees' worldview and allow readers a glimpse into a time of change and upheaval for the tribe.

    List of Maps     

    Series Editors' Preface

    Acknowledgments  

    Editorial Policy 

    Introduction     

    Chapter 1. Significant Events and Themes at Springplace Mission between 1805 and 1821    

          Conversion, Moravian Style   

          Principal Converts to the Moravian Church

          James Vann's Rejection of Christianity   

          Annuity Distribution at Vann's Plantation

          Cherokee Education, Moravian Style 

          Children's Illnesses at the Mission

          Removal of Children from the Mission School    

          Rumors of Mistreatment of Students 

          Runaway Students 

          Rumors of Abductions   

          Rumors of Hunger 

          Children's "Errant" Behavior 

          A Child's Death at the Mission     

          Use of Alcohol   

          Travelers and Notable Visitors     

          Earthquakes

          Creek War of 1813<EN>14

     

    Chapter 2. Continuity of Traditional Cherokee Cultural Traits    

          Cherokees' Concept of Land and Land Values     

          Voices in Cherokee Councils  

          Moravians and the U.S. Government  

          Cherokee Agricultural Practices    

          Cherokee Traditional Rituals and Contact with Christianity 

          Trade

          Cherokee Law and Punishment  

          Green Corn Ceremony    

          Ball Play  

          Cherokee Origin Stories

          Cherokees' Responses to Christian Images 

     

    Epilogue   

    Notes

     

     
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