Abstract
Abstract Samson Occom maintained a lifelong interest in hymnody. Song had long been an important element of community life and ritual among Occom’s Mohegan and other southern New England tribes. However, forces of dispersal including war, territorial infringement, indentured servitude, and boarding schools removed young people from their families, clans, and tribes, reducing their exposure to traditional languages, songs, and stories, and threatening the continuity of tribal song traditions. After the Great Awakening, many tribal communities in New England adopted hymn singing as a ritual of community reconciliation, consolation, and celebration. Samson Occom helped foster these new song traditions by composing original hymns and publishing A Choice Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs in 1774.
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