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Caroline Dodds Pennock

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

Caroline Dodds Pennock

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A faux Brazilian village constructed for Henry II and Catherine de’ Medici on the banks of the Seine in Rouen, France, and inhabited by fifty Tupinambá people who were forcibly brought there from Brazil, 1550.

The Discovery of Europe

A new book investigates the indigenous Americans who were brought to or traveled to Europe in the 1500s—a story central to the beginning of globalization.

by Álvaro Enrigue via New York Review of Books on December 28, 2023

Indigenous people brought to Spain by Hernán Cortés play the game patolli.

The Indigenous Americans Who Visited Europe

A new book reverses the narrative of the Age of Discovery, which has long evoked the ambitions of Europeans looking to the Americas rather than vice versa.

by Karin Wulf via Smithsonian on January 26, 2023

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