Lost Tribes Found - 9780806192277

Lost Tribes FoundIsraelite Indians and Religious Nationalism in Early America\nAuthor(s): Matthew W. Dougherty\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press, United States\nImprint: University of Oklahoma Press\nISBN-13: 9780806192277, 978-0806192277\nSynopsis\nThe belief that Native Americans might belong to the fabled lost tribes of IsraelIsraelites driven from their homeland around 740 BCEtook hold among Anglo-Americans and Indigenous peoples in the United States during its first half century. In Lost Tribes Found, Matthew W. Dougherty explores what this idea can tell us about religious nationalism in early America.\n\n Some white Protestants, Mormons, American Jews, and Indigenous people constructed nationalist narratives around the then-popular idea of Israelite Indians. Although these were minority viewpoints, they reveal that the story of religion and nationalism in the early United States was more complicated and wide-ranging than studies of American chosen-ness.