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Indigenous History

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Detail of an engraved print shows children blowing bubbles in a grassy area. Items in the image are labeled and a portion of the key is visible.

Enseñar desde luego silabeando

Jose de Nava
1802
Detail of a colored manuscript chart shows a small cluster of homes and palm trees with text in English reading "Indian Village of Sancopana."

An actual survey of the River Orinoco from the great mouth up to the City of Angostura

1803
Engraved fold-out map shows Greenland spelled "Grœnland" and other text in German.

Historie von Grönland

David Cranz
1765-1770
Cover of Instructio[n]

Instructio[n], y memoria, de las relaciones que se han de hazer, para la descripcion de las Indias

Juan López de Velasco
1577
Detail of printed frontispiece shows two men on either side of French title.

Le miroir de la tyrannie espagnole perpetrée aux Indes Occidentales

Bartolomé de las Casas
1620

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detail of "Cuevas de los siete linajes que poblaron en México y alrededor dél" from the Tovar Codex

Paper Worlds of Native Voices

Fall 2019-Winter 2020
painting of Moctezuma
Roundtable

Mexico 1519: 5 centuries, 5 objects, 5 approaches

detail of a worn manuscript
Lecture

Engaged Digital Scholarship: The Ticha Project and Zapotec language archival texts

America Meredith (Cherokee), London Calling 1762 (2012)
Lecture

Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire

cover of the book Paradis du Nouveau Monde by Nathan wachtel
Our Fellows

Fresh Ink: Paradis du Nouveau Monde by Nathan Wachtel

June 29, 2019

Ticha Project: JCB's Digitized Texts Take on New Life

June 21, 2019
a Mohawk man teaches children in a schoolhouse

Controlling Colonial Impressions

May-October 2019
Black people work at a sugar mill with clouds and a palm tree outside

The Americas on Fire

See Also

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Maritime History