- Samson Occom Papers. Guide to the Samson Occom Collection at the Connecticut Historical Society. (New URL)
- A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff's teaching guide from the Heath Anthology site.
- Brief biographical sketch from Virtuology.com
- Samson Occom and the Brothertown Indian settlements in New York.
- Samson Occom at the Native American Authors project. This site contains bibliographic information on the primary texts but not the texts themselves.
- An essay on Occom, "Samson Occom at the Mohegan Sun," is in the online journal Common-place.
- Brief biographical sketch at the Mohegan Tribe site.
- Sketch of Occom's house and another version of the picture.(You must agree to the site's terms before seeing the picture.)
- Occom (from the Old New York Frontier by Francis Whiting Halsey)
- Selected bibliography from Paul Reuben's PAL site
Image of an 1802 engraving of Samson Occom courtesy of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library,University of Pennsylvania
Works Available Online (at Cyberhymnal)
"Awaked
by Sinai's Awful Sound"
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Turn Ye, for Why Will Ye Die?"
Secondary Bibliography on Occom
Bouwman, Heather M. "The Familiar Foreigner: English Colonists and American Indians Writing Each Other." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 59.8 (1999): 2976.
Brooks, Joanna. American Lazarus: The Rise and Fall of African-American and Native American Literatures. Oxford, England : Oxford UP, 2003.
---. "Six Hymns by Samson Occom." Early American Literature 38.1 (2003): 67-87.
Chamberlain, Ava. "The Execution of Moses Paul: A Story of Crime and Contact in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut." New England Quarterly: A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters 77.3 (2004): 414-50.
Elliott, Michael. "'This Indian Bait': Samson Occom and the Voice of Liminality." Early American Literature 29.3 (1994): 233-53.
Elrod, Eileen Razzari. "'I Did Not Make Myself So ...': Samson Occom and American Religious Autobiography." Christian Encounters with the Other. Eds. John C. Hawley and Erick D. Langer: New York UP, New York, NY Pagination: 135-49, 1998. xiii, 197.
Fields, Polly Stevens. "Samson Occom and/in the Missionary's Position: Consideration of a Native American Preacher in 1770's Colonial America." Wordsworth Circle 32.1 (2001): 14-20.
Gianferrari, Maria Christina. "Hybrid Voices/Hybrid Texts: A Study of Syncretism in the Works of Samson Occom, Handsome Lake, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Louise Erdrich." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 60.7 (2000): 2492.
McCarthy, Keely. "Conversion, Identity, and the Indian Missionary." Early American Literature 36.3 (2001): 353-70.
Nelson, Dana D. "'(I Speak Like a Fool but I Am Constrained)': Samson Occom's Short Narrative and Economies of the Racial Self." Early Native American Writing: New Critical Essays. Eds. Helen Jaskoski and A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff. Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture (Csalc) Number: 102: Cambridge UP, New York, NY Pagination: 42-65, 1996. xv, 238.
---. "Reading the Written Selves of Colonial America: Franklin, Occom, Equiano, and Palou/Serra." Resources for American Literary Study 19.2 (1993): 246-59.
Ottery, Jim. "Samson Occom's Diary and D'arcy Mcnickle's 'Train Time': The Real Imperative of 'Native' Education in American Indian Literature." Studies in American Indian Literatures: The Journal of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures 13.4 (2001): 24-50.
Peyer, Bernd. "Samson Occom: Mohegan Missionary and Writer of the Eighteenth Century." American Indian Quarterly 6.3-4 (1982): 208-17.
Peyer, Bernd C. The Tutor'd Mind: Indian Missionary-Writers in Antebellum America. Amherst, MA : U of Massachusetts P, 1997.
Roppolo, Kimberly. "'an Incipient Study of the Indian Half of the Dialogic': Native Rhetorics and Occom's Use of Indirect Discourse." 'Stealing/Steeling the Spirit: American Indian Identities' and 'Smoke Screens/Smoke Signals: Looking through Two Worlds'. Eds. Lucretia Scoufos, Mark Spencer and Chad Litton: Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, OK Pagination: 41-47, 2003. vii, 92.
Ruoff, A. LaVonne Brown. "Introduction: Samson Occom's Sermon Preached by Samson Occom'at the Execution of Moses Paul, an Indian." Studies in American Indian Literatures: The Journal of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures 4.2-3 (1992): 75-105.