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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction
Part I: Christianity Comes to Oneida Country
Editors' Introduction
Chapter 1: The Oneida World before Christianity (Laurence M. Hauptman)
Chapter 2: Oneidas and Missionaries, 1667–1816 (Karim Tiro)
Chapter 3: Flawed Shepherd: Eleazer Williams, John Henry Hobart, and the Episcopal Mission
to the Oneidas (Michael Oberg)
Part II: The Oneida Episcopal Mission: The First Century in Wisconsin
Editors' Introduction
Chapter 4: Another Leatherstocking Tale: Susan Fenimore Cooper, the Episcopal Church, and
the Oneidas (Laurence M. Hauptman, L. Gordon McLester III, and Judy Cornelius-Hawk)
Chapter 5: A Mission of Mutuality: The Relationship between the Oneidas and the Nashotah
House Theological Seminary (Very Rev. Steven A. Peay)
Chapter 6: Wearing Two Hats: Cornelius Hill and John Archiquette, Oneida Nation and
Episcopal Church Leaders (L. Gordon McLester III and Laurence M. Hauptman)
Chapter 7: The Episcopal Mission 1853–1909: Three Church Accounts
Ellen Saxton Goodnough: Christmas at the Oneida Episcopal Mission, 1869
Father Solomon S. Burleson describes providing medical care at Oneida
Father Frank Wesley Merrill on Missionary Sybil Carter and the Oneida
Women lace-makers, 1899
Part III: Oneida First-Person Accounts of the Episcopal Mission and Its Clergy
Editors' Introduction
Chapter 8: Six Oneidas Recount Eight WPA Oral Histories, 1938–1942, about the Episcopal
Mission (Sarah Cornelius, Guy Elm, Lena Silas, Oscar Archiquette, Pearl House, and David
Skenandore)
Chapter 9: Ten Contemporary Oneidas Reminisce in Nine Accounts about the Holy Apostles Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Mission
Kenneth Hoyan House: Reverend Christian puts me on the Straight Path
Blanche Powless: The Episcopal Mission School
Kathy Powless Hughes: My father Deacon Edmund Powless
Sister Theresa and Mother Superior Alicia: Oneidas in the Order of the
Teachers of the Children of God: Two Nuns reflect on their service to the
Episcopal Church
Pearl Schuyler McLester: Reminiscences of the Oneida Episcopal Mission
Deacon Deborah Heckel: Father R. Dewey Silas
Judy Cornelius: As I remember: The women of the Church of the Holy Apostles
Betty McLester and Judy Skenandore: Oneida lacemaking: then and now
L. Gordon McLester III: The Oneida Indian Hymn Singers
Part IV: Conclusion
Chapter 10: Putting Oneida Episcopal History in Perspective (Christopher Vecsey)
Chapter 11: The Wisconsin Oneidas and the Episcopal Church: Then and Now
Appendix: Episcopal Priests and Bishops Who Have Served the Oneidas in Wisconsin
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