Chapter 5
Native American Origin Stories
Native American Trickster Stories
Iroquois Confederacy, from The Iroquois Constitution
Álvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, from The Relation of Cabeza de Vaca
Richard Frethorne, Letter to Father and Mother
Anne Bradstreet, The Prologue and The Author to Her Book
Eavan Boland, Becoming Anne Bradstreet
Anonymous, Mrs. Elizabeth Freake and Baby Mary (painting)
Edward Taylor, Huswifery
Mary Rowlandson, from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
Cotton Mather, Wonders of the Invisible World: A Hortatory and Necessary Address to a Country Now Extraordinarily Alarum’d by the Wrath of the Devil
John Hale, from A Modest Inquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft
Conversation | The American Jeremiad
A Collection of Bob Dylan Jeremiads
Conversation | The Columbus Day Controversy
Conversation | Pocahontas: A Woman, a Movie, a Myth?
Additional Resources on Puritanism