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Journal Article

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Stott, Graham St. John

New Jerusalem Abandoned : The Failure to Carry Mormonism to the Delaware

Journal of American Studies

April 1987

21

1987

71-85

Author examines early efforts to convert the Indians, with the idea that they would build and rule in a New Jerusalem. Author also focuses on missionary efforts among the Delaware Indians, and how this mission was abandoned.

Native Americans, missions to
Native Americans, Delaware

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