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This month we'll be discussing On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe by Caroline Dodds Pennock.
No cultural exchange is ever entirely one-sided. Beginning with Christopher Columbus’s first voyage in 1492, European “explorers” brought Native people from the Americas home with them. That has been treated as inconsequential by historians, if they bothered to acknowledge it at all. This book looks for what we can know about these travelers: some willing, some enslaved, some gawked at as living curiosities, some feted as visiting royalty. What did 16th-century Europeans make of them, and what did they make of the “New World” they found to the east of the Atlantic?
Find On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe in the library catalog.
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