John Eliot and the Indians, 1604-1690

338 pp. "...this book details the forty-four year relationship of John Eliot with the Indians of Massachusetts. The "Apostle to the Indians," Eliot was the greatest Protestant missionary of the seventeenth century. His translation of the Bible into Algongquian was the first Bible printed in American. Eliot preached in the native language, trained Indian preachers, and guided hundreds of Christian "Praying Indians" as they founded fourteen towns in which they practice their new-found faith."--jacket