Description
Book SynopsisOffers a look at the work of a group of Native American visionaries who forged syncretic religious movements that provided their peoples with the ideological means to resist white domination. This book explains the conditions giving rise to the millenarian movements and illuminates the histories, personalities, and legacies of the movement.
Trade Review“In this excellent, enjoyable work, Cave explores how a series of connected religious movements led by dynamic prophets swept through Indian groups in eastern North America between 1744 and 1835. . . . Cave’s book will be useful to students of religion as well as Native American history.”—
Choice“At multiple points in
Prophets, Cave demonstrates his historiographical acumen. . . . Cave’s treatments, though, of Tenskwatawa and Tecumseh’s efforts is perhaps the book’s most informative historiographical contribution. . . . Cave’s is an admirable text. It is well researched and finely written. To be sure, then,
Prophets of the Great Spirit is a highly serviceable and commendable introduction for any student of Native American revitalization movements, Native American history and regions, and early American history.”—Brendan Q. Swagerty,
Journal of Religion
Table of Contents1. The Delaware Prophets; 2. The Shawnee Prophet; 3. Tenskwatawa, Tecumseh, and the Pan-Indian Movement; 4. The Red Sticks000; 5. The Seneca Prophet; 6. The Kickapoo Prophet
