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6) The taking of Jemima Boone: colonial settlers, tribal nations, and the kidnap that shaped America
En este ensayo crítico, Fernando Santos Granero revisa la historiografía sobre Juan Santos Atahuallpa y propone una nueva lectura sobre la sublevación multicultural que puso de cabeza al virreinato peruano en 1742. El autor plantea que lo que parece incoherencia en el pensamiento y accionar de Juan Santos Atahuallpa es el resultado de una estrategia discursiva tendiente a garantizar la adhesión de diversos estamentos
...Few people realize that Native Americans were enslaved right alongside the African Americans in this country. Fewer still realize that many Native Americans owned African Americans and Native Americans from other tribes. Recently, historians have determined that of the 2,193 interviews with former slaves that were collected by the Federal Writers' Project, 12 percent contain some reference to the interviewees' being related to or descended from
...Before Roger Williams set foot in the New World, the Narragansett farmed corn and squash, hunted beaver and deer, and harvested clams and oysters throughout what would become Rhode Island. They also obtained wealth in the form of wampum, a carved shell that was used as currency...
Globe and Mail 100: Best Books of 2016
When freelance journalist Alexandra Shimo arrives in Kashechewan,...
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