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In 1492 when Christopher Columbus encountered native inhabitants of the Americas, he thought he was in the Far East - and so he mistakenly called them "Indians". The misnomer has persisted and with it a host of medieval and Renaissance beliefs and misconceptions about "Indians". Eastern or Western. Those anomalous "Indian" stereotypes generated by the Columbian encounter, both positive and negative, still determine many details of the present-day image of Native Americans. The authors reclaim th

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Author

Moffitt, John F.; Sebastián, Santiago

Publisher

Albuquerque, N.m. : University Of New Mexico Press, 1998, C1996.

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780826319890

Category

history

Subjects

History, Travel, Anthropology

Updated

2026-03-25