Ch6 Engagement
The entangled worlds of Indians and Europeans
Indians and Europeans were entangled in a way
Savages
were described as barbaours because they were rude and because they lacked civility
europeans were very barbaric at the time
American Ethnography
almost everything we know comes from europeans
columbus pretended in his letters he and the natives could understand each other
Fernandez de Oviedo
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (August 1478 – 1557) was a Spanish historian and writer. He is commonly known as "Oviedo" even though his family name is Fernández. He participated in the Spanish colonization of the Caribbean, and wrote a long chronicle of this project which is one of the few primary sources about it. For three centuries, only a small portion of it was published, but this abridgement was widely read in the 16th century in Spanish, English, and French editions.
he wrote justificially about the conquests
Bartolome de las Cases
argued for the humanity of the Indians
narratives of the Europeans were not objective at all
bernadine de Sahagun
the greatest franciscan scholar
arrived in new spain in 1529, master d Nauatl
rejected the ideaa of indian inferiority or barbarism
believed that these religions surpassed that of rome and Greece
natives participated in the production of knowledge
pedro de Cieza Leon
wrote 8000 pages of manuscript history
Jose de Acosta
Natural and moral history of the indies
writes that much nonsense had been with about the indies
Michel de Montaigne (French)
wrote that the tupinamba were constantly at war and canibals
closely connected and interwoven
paulistas became known for theyir agrgressive capture of slaves
bandeirantes
were 17th-century Portuguese settlers in Brazil and fortune hunters. This group mostly hailed from the São Paulo region, which was known as the Captaincy of São Vicente until 1709 and then as the Captaincy of São Paulo. They led expeditions called bandeiras (Portuguese, "flags") which penetrated the interior of Brazil far south and west of the Tordesillas Line of 1494, which officially divided the Castilian, later Spanish, (west) domain from the Portuguese (east) domain in South America
they were supported by the mamelukes
Sell them the pearls of heaven
compared to France, Spain and Portugal, the Netherlands and england devote relatively few forces to the evangelisation
Partners and Allies
the French and the Hurons which proved disastrous foer the hurons as the missionaries spread diseases etc.
iroquois
The Iroquois (/ˈɪrəkwɔɪ/ or /ˈɪrəkwɑː/) or Haudenosaunee (/ˈhoʊdənoʊˈʃoʊni/)[1] are a historically powerful northeast Native American confederacy. They were known during the colonial years to the French as the "Iroquois League," and later as the "Iroquois Confederacy," and to the English as the "Five Nations" (before 1722), and later as the "Six Nations," comprising the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora peoples.
guns were extremely popular with the indians and they became in general increasingly dependant on european goods
Death and Life
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