{"product_id":"brainerd-journal-a-mission-to-the-cherokees-1817-1823-hardcover","title":"Brainerd Journal: A Mission to the Cherokees, 1817-1823 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoyce B. Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003ePhilip H. Viles  Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by), \u003cb\u003ePaul Gary Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe journal of the Brainerd Mission is an indispensable source for understanding Cherokee culture and history during the early nineteenth century. The interdenominational mission was located in the heart of Cherokee country near present-day Chattanooga. For seven years the Brainerd missionaries kept a journal describing their lives and those of their charges. Although the journal has long been recognized as a significant primary document, it was not fully transcribed or made widely available until now. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe journal entries provide a richly textured and sensitive look at Cherokee life and American missionary activities during the early nineteenth century. They shed new light on the daily lives and personalities of individual Cherokees, as well as on poorly understood aspects of Cherokee politics and religion. The journal provides interesting ethnographic details concerning Cherokee council meetings, ceremonial occasions, gender relations, and the internal social and political tensions among families. Of equal interest are the complex and often conflicted attitudes of the missionaries, who were interested in Cherokee traditional culture but simultaneously worked to change it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoyce B. Phillips is supervisor of the English Writing Center at Grossmont College. Paul Gary Phillips, a member of the Cherokee Nation, is an English instructor at Grossmont College and a descendent of the superintendent of the Brainerd Mission. Philip H. Viles Jr. is Associate Justice of the Cherokee Nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 586\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.45 x 9.22 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 15, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42723015393343,"sku":"9780803237186","price":90.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/884b545b7d0fe4eb85c9e6becf50e996.webp?v=1765097718","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/brainerd-journal-a-mission-to-the-cherokees-1817-1823-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}