Abstract
This work of poetry, non-fiction, and historical source material deals with the gathering of the first ‘Praying Indian’ congregation at Natick, Massachusetts Bay colony, in 1654. The Reverend John Eliot and one of his Native American translators, possibly John Sassamon, helped guide the Praying Indians through their professions of saving grace, a puritan requirement for full church membership. Before the formal gathering, Eliot's translator and two other Native Americans got drunk and forcefully inebriated the eleven-year-old son of a sachem. This event nearly derailed the church gathering. Most of the events depicted here, and a good part of Eliot's narrative, are a matter of historical record; the rest has grown, through language, momentum, and human logic, from that historical record.
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