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This etching shows Moravian missionary David Zeisberger preaching to Native Americans. Zeisberger was also a prolific writer and translator of Indian languages.
This etching shows Moravian missionary David Zeisberger preaching to Native Americans. Zeisberger was also a prolific writer and translator of Indian languages.
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David Zeisberger, by John Valentine Haidt, 1771.
...portrait of David Zeisberger captures the simplicity of Moravian dress and manners, as well as the earnestness of Zeisberger's character. Like Quakers, the Moravians impressed Indians with their honesty and kindness, especially when compared to other Europeans.
This unadorned oil on canvas portrait of Zeisberger captures the simplicity of Moravian dress and manners, as well as the earnestness of Zeisberger's character
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David Zeisberger's Burial Notes on an Indian Convert, 1801.
David Zeisberger (1721-1808) often recorded brief biographies of his Indian converts at the time of their burials. One such biography was for Sophia, whose life followed the westward migration patterns of the Moravian Delaware during the era of the American Revolution....
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The Gnadenhutten massacre monument, Gnadenhutten, Ohio.
...Zeisberger, Gnadenhutten, in central Ohio, during the American Revolution became a refuge for hundreds of American Indians whom Zeisberger had converted to Christianity. Convinced that they were aiding other Indians fighting colonists on the frontier, Pennsylvania...
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David Zeisberger published several works in the Delaware tongue, including translations of hymns from German and English hymn-books of the Moravian Church and his Delaware Indian and English Spelling Book for the Schools of the Mission of the United Brethren, first...
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David Zeisberger, On Indian Production of Maple Sugar, circa 1780.
...Zeisberger recorded this description of how Indian women produced maple sugar as part of their seasonal labor cycle.
The Delawares call this tree [sugar maple] the Achsunnamunschi, that is, the stone tree, on account of the hardness of the wood. The [Iroquois]...
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David Zeisberger: A LIfe Among the Indians
Olmstead, Earl P.
Zeisberger, David
Knepper, George W.
Book
Kent State University Press
1997
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David Zeisberger published his Delaware Indian and English Spelling Book for the Schools of the Mission of the United Brethren, which cantains a "Short History of the Bible," in English and Delaware on facing pages.
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Diary of David Zeisberger: A Missionary Among the Indians of Ohio
Zeisberger, David
Book
Scholarly Press
1972
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PA 49, 11 miles Northeast of Coudersport near Raymond
Noted Moravian missionary, passed through here in Oct. 1767, en route from Bethlehem to found missions among the Delaware Indians to the West. He was the first white man to travel through the primeval forests of this region.
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Blackcoats among the Delaware: David Zeisberger on the Ohio Frontier
Olmstead, Earl P
Book
Kent State University Press
1991
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Blackcoats among the Delaware: David Zeisberger on the Ohio Frontier
Olmstead, Earl P
Book
Kent State University Press
1991
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