Samson Occom
The Reverend Samson Occom (1723 – July 14, 1792) (also misspelled as Occum) was a Native American Presbyterian clergyman and a member of the Mohegan nation near New London, Connecticut. He has the distinction of being the first Native American to publish documents and pamphlets in English. Along with John Eliot, he is known as one of the foremost men who cross-fertilised Native American communities with Christianized European culture.
In 1785, together with two other leaders, he organized Christian Indians among various Mohegan and Pequot bands in New England and eastern Long Island into a tribe called the Brothertown Indians.
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