Description |
175 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm. |
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Pages from history |
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Pages from history.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-168) and index. |
Summary |
A collection of documents illustrating encounters between Native American peoples and a variety of European newcomers from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Includes maps, journals, advertisements, and letters. |
Contents |
What is a document? -- How to read a document -- Introduction -- On the turtle's back ; Why Europe? ; Dealing with the documents -- Mapping the world -- Ptolemy's revolution ; Christian world ; Expanding world ; America emerges ; Vanishing maps ; Lines and circles -- First encounters -- Prophecies, plans, and fantasies ; First impressions ; Gods? Savages? ; Dividing the sexes ; Catalog of nature ; Indians abroad -- Conquest and resistance -- Montezuma, Quetzalcoatl, and Cortes ; Eight-year journey ; Invading the interior ; Great debate ; Missions and presidios -- Furs, rivers, and black robes -- Peoples of the Longhouse ; New France ; Society of Jesus ; New worlds, new women ; Covenants of war and peace -- English arrive -- Go west ; Roanoke, the lost colony ; Powhatan and his people ; Founding Jamestown ; Pocahontas and her legacy -- Africans in America -- Kidnapped ; Tips for slave traders ; Ships of death ; For sale ; Africans' new worlds ; Two views ; Runaways and rebels -- Planting New England -- Metacom's Rebellion ; Manitou and the city on a hill ; Marking the landscape ; Praying Indians. |
Subject |
Indians -- History -- Sources -- Juvenile literature.
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Indians -- First contact with Europeans -- Juvenile literature.
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Indians -- History -- Sources.
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Indians -- First contact with Europeans -- Sources.
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Indians. (OCoLC)fst00969307
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Indians -- First contact with Europeans.
(OCoLC)fst00969339
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Native Americans -- First contact with Europeans -- Sources.
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Native Americans -- History -- Sources.
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Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
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Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
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Added Author |
Lepore, Jill, 1966-
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ISBN |
0195105133 |
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9780195105131 (alk. paper) |
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9780195154917 (pbk.) |
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0195154916 (pbk.) |
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