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Life Story: Kateri Tekakwitha (1656-1680)

visiting priest that she wanted to learn more about his religion. The priest was delighted, and began formally instructing her in the prayers and rituals of his faith. Kateri was baptized in 1676, at which time she took the name Kateri in honor of Saint

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Life Story: Lady Deborah Moody (1586-1659)

chose excommunication, gathered her fellow Anabaptists, and set out once again to find a place where they could practice their religion in peace. At the same time that Deborah was standing trial in Massachusetts, Director Willem Kieft of the Dutch West

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Witchcraft in Bermuda

England for the New World to start their own settlements where religion would govern daily life. St. Georges: The first permanent English settlement of Bermuda. tribe: Bermuda community. How does the court go about determining whether Jeane

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Education in New France

. Jesuits in New France were devoted to the task of converting Native communities to Catholicism. mission: When a group of religious people travel to a foreign land to carry out religious work, including convincing people to convert and join their religion

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Mourning Poetry of Anne Bradstreet

. Puritans: A group of English Protestants who left England for the New World to start their own settlements where religion would govern daily life. steward: A person who looks after another person’s property. terminate: Ended. tydings: News. twain

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A Nun Challenges the Patriarchy

as she wished. Over the next twenty-five years, Sor Juana became famous for her poetry and prose on topics like love, religion, feminism, and women’s rights. Ultimately, her work drew criticism from the religious authorities, who were appalled that a

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Life Story: Weetamoo (ca. 1635-40 – ca. 1676)

-day Rhode Island since pre-European contact. Pocasset: One of the original tribes of the Wampanoag Confederacy. Puritans: A group of English Protestants who left England for the New World to start their own settlements where religion would govern daily

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Instructions for the New World

black slaves or other slaves who were -born in the power of Christians, and who are Our subjects and natives of Our Kingdoms. Isabella believes that if people of diverse religions are allowed in the colony, it will interfere with the conversion of Native

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Mortar and Pestle for Pounding Rice

jumping off point for a research project into the techniques, technologies, and cultural practices that enslaved people brought to the New World (i.e. music, religion, agricultural techniques). For more stories of women and agricultural innovation, pair

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