The East Hampton Library’s Long Island Collection presents a talk with Ryan Carr on his new book: Samson Occom: Radical Hospitality in the Native Northeast, on Friday, June 7 at 5PM. Carr, a professor at Columbia University, will talk about his new book and the impact of early Mohegan Presbyterian Minister Samson Occom. Occom married Montaukett woman Mary Fowler and played a prominent role on Eastern Long Island. Occom’s friend and mentor, East Hampton’s Reverend Samuel Buell delivered the sermon at Occom’s ordination. Occom was one the first indigenous writers to publish in English and was a well-known missionary. He and his Montaukett brother-in-law built a community upstate of Christian natives from multiple tribes, which they called Brothertown. Carr will talk about Occom, Northeast indigenous cultures, and the intersection of Christianity and indigeneity in America.
