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SINGING “JESU PASCHGON KIA” AT THE EITELJORG MUSEUM, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA To me, it’s like a prayer language ’cause it’s a separate language now for me and when I say it I feel I’m stepping on sacred ground…It’s a language that carried my people back and forth and yet we can still touch it. It’s like […]

Conclusion: Hearing New Histories The various methods of musical reconstruction we have deployed in these three recordings, and the dramatically different end results, help us to “hear” more clearly the presences and absences of the eighteenth-century textual sources. Using the standards of historical musical performance for the first recording, we were able to make use

Project Documentary Video Credits Video Producers: Rachel Wheeler, Sarah EyerlyWriter/Director: Catherine CrouchCamera/Sound: Shuling Yong, Ladema ZinsmeisterSoundtrack: Bill MillerTitles/Graphics: Matt MutchmoreVideo Editors: Liz Sykes, Adam Stackhouse

People Rachel Wheeler Rachel Wheeler is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. She is the author of To Live upon Hope: Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast (Cornell University Press, 2008). https://liberalarts.iupui.edu/about/directory/wheeler-rachel-m.html Sarah Eyerly Sarah Eyerly is Associate Professor of Musicology and Director of the Early Music Program at

Places Church of the Wilderness Bowler, WI Arvid E. Miller Historical Library/Museum Bowler, WI Moravian Archives Bethlehem, PA Florida State University Tallahassee, FL Eiteljorg Museum Indianapolis, IN Moravian Archives Herrnhut, Germany

Images, Videos, and Recordings FIGURES VIDEOS   |   RECORDINGS   |   ADDITIONAL IMAGES Figure I “Verse zum Gebrauch bey den Indianern in Scattigok” [Verses for the use of the Indians in Scattigok (Connecticut)], Records of the Moravian Mission among the Indians of North American (MissInd) 331.2, Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, Pa. Reproduction courtesy of the Moravian Archives. Mel.