This biography of John Heckewelder, a Moravian missionary and ethnographer who lived among the Delaware and Munsee Indians in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, offers a valuable perspective on the culture and history of Native Americans in the early years of the United States. Coates and Rondthaler draw on Heckewelder's extensive correspondence and journals to provide a vivid portrait of the man and the communities in which he lived. Their book provides an important window into a complex and fascinating period in American history.

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