Abstract
Abstract Composition” recounts how three men—Joseph Johnson (Mohegan), Thomas Commuck (Narragansett Brothertown), and Brent Michael Davids (Stockbridge-Munsee Band of the Mohican Nation)—exemplify a multicentury practice of what the chapter calls hymncraft, the composition of a material text with songs of praise and veneration for the sacred relationships between communities, place, and beings, human and other-than-human. For these men, hymncraft is an instrument for choreographing new visions of community, first centered in the Native North American Northeast in the 1770s, then in the new Native Christian nation of Brothertown in the 1840s, and lastly in an interconnected continental Indigenous present that remains grounded in seasonal rhythms and philosophies of place and home.
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