Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-168) and index.
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.
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.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.