30 topics I could write 10 pages about

Experimenting in ways to outline my dissertation:

1. Indian rhetoric when writing to white authorities -- positions of deference
2. Indian use of wilderness metaphor
3. physical structure of the convent and where it was located
4. English use of wilderness metaphor
5. Financial struggles of both establishments
6. Limits of indigenous identity at both sites -- caciques or not? Indian or not? intermarriage or not?
7. In-fighting among the founders of the movements
8. Indian acceptance of gendered constructs in their rhetoric
9. Women's roles in establishing/supporting the networks that created these locations
10. Failed attempts to build additional convents -- Corpus Christi petitions
11. Spanish missionary approaches
12. English missionary approaches
13. Immediate context: Seven Years' War, Wheelock
14. Immediate context: Bourbon reforms, extirpation campaigns
15. European-led Indian spaces in US (Stockbridge, Brainerd/Brotherton) & their failures
16. European-led Indian spaces in Mexico (Corpus Christi, that other convent) & their failures
17. Actual process of petitioning for the convent, rules for opening a convent, etc
18. Actual process of founding Brothertown, who moved there, funding, etc
19. Extent of Brothertown network and influence -- connections between families, Indian ministers, etc
20. Influence of Indian ministers/priests
21. Extent of Cacicas' support network, ethnicity of caciques
22. Rhetoric (and real life) positioning of themselves as civilized Indians
23. Exploration of Christianity as practiced in these two sites
24. Difficulty of maintaining Cacicas' convent -- financial struggles, lack of commitment
25. Difficulty of maintaining Brothertown -- forced to leave NY
26. Mexican and American views of land in 19th century, shifting role of Indians in the national imagination
27. Influence of Brothertown on Black separatism
28. rhetoric of invoking Royal/European authority
29. End of Cacicas' convent/Brothertown -- dissolution into private homes (but did it really dissolve?)
30. Conclusion?

Organized into chapters:

1. Context of the movements within colonial culture

1. Spanish missionary approaches
2. English missionary approaches
3. Immediate context: Seven Years' War, Wheelock
4. Immediate context: Bourbon reforms, extirpation campaigns
5. European-led Indian spaces in US (Stockbridge, Brainerd/Brotherton) & their failures
6. European-led Indian spaces in Mexico (Corpus Christi, that other convent) & their failures

2. History of the two spaces

1. Actual process of petitioning for the convent, rules for opening a convent, etc
2. Actual process of founding Brothertown, who moved there, funding, etc
3. physical structure of the convent and where it was located
4. Financial struggles of both establishments
5. Limits of indigenous identity at both sites -- caciques or not? Indian or not? intermarriage or not?
6. In-fighting among the founders of the movements
7. Exploration of Christianity as practiced in these two sites

3. How the Indians argued that the two places should be established

1. rhetoric of invoking Royal/European authority
2. Rhetoric (and real life) positioning of themselves as civilized Indians
3. Indian rhetoric when writing to white authorities -- positions of deference
4. Indian use of wilderness metaphor
5. English use of wilderness metaphor
6. Indian acceptance of gendered constructs in their rhetoric

4. Networks that supported these spaces

1. Extent of Brothertown network and influence -- connections between families, Indian ministers, etc
2. Influence of Indian ministers/priests
3. Extent of Cacicas' support network, ethnicity of caciques
4. Influence of Brothertown on Black separatism
5. Failed attempts to build additional convents -- Corpus Christi petitions
6. Women's roles in establishing/supporting the networks that created these locations

5. The decline of Christian Indian spaces

1. Difficulty of maintaining Cacicas' convent -- financial struggles, lack of commitment
2. Difficulty of maintaining Brothertown -- forced to leave NY
3. Mexican and American views of land in 19th century, shifting role of Indians in the national imagination
4. End of Cacicas' convent/Brothertown -- dissolution into private homes (but did it really dissolve?)