The life and times of David Zeisberger, the western pioneer and apostle of the Indians

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Earl P. Olmstead

Thousands of pages of diaries and hundreds of letters serve as David Zeisberger's testament to sixty-three years as a Moravian missionary among North American Indians. This unrivaled record of Indian culture and colonial life provides firsthand evidence of the eighteenth-century struggle between the American Indians and their British and American adversaries. Readers of Blackcoats among the Delaware will find new and interesting historical data taken from recently discovered correspondence and previously untranslated diaries, as well as a fascinating analysis of Zeisberger's unique approach to Christian philosophy vis-a-vis native Indian religion and culture. The final section of the book is devoted to discussing the often tragic lives of the forty Indians buried with Zeisberger in the Goshen cemetery. - Back cover.

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Michael Burgan

"Chronicles the life of Edward S. Curtis and his 20-volume life's work, The North American Indian"--Provided by publisher.

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Carl Waldman

"Biographical Dictionary of American Indian History to 1900 summarizes the lives of a wide range of Indians and non-Indians central to Native American history. In more than 1,000 A-to-Z entries, author Carl Waldman profiles men and women who have made significant contributions from early contact until 1900. Not limited to chiefs and war leaders, the book also includes traders, prophets and religious leaders, statesmen, artists and photographers, medicine men and women, and scholars and educators. This revised edition also features expanded subject indexes, a new further reading list/bibliography, and a new general index."--BOOK JACKET.

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Anna Hiebert Esau

In 1936, the Southern District of the Mennonite Brethren Conference of Churches in North America met for convention in Fairview, Oklahoma, and made a significant decision. The seventeen churches of the district at the time decided to step out in faith and begin a Christian mission to the Mexican Americans living in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. From this initial venture the Latin American Mennonite Brethren (LAMB) Conference emerged. Anna and her husband, Henry T. Easu, spent many years ministering in South Texas. It is out of this background that she writes this history of the LAMB Conference.