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IMAGES OF NATIVE AMERICA:

FROM COLUMBUS TO CARLISLE

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Peter F. Rothermel's Columbus Before the Queen    Saintly Founder: Jennifer Marshall on the religious Isabella and Columbus

America by Johannes Stradanus   Sleeping Beauty: Edward J. Gallagher on Vespucci awakening the New World

from Lorenz Fries's Carta Marina   Cynocephales: Celia J. Shiffer on the Native Americans as dog-headed cannibals

from Theodor De Bry's Grand Voyages to America   Commodified Cannibals: Harry J. Brown on De Bry's Black Legend Tupinambas

John Gadsby Chapman's Baptism of Pocahontas   Indian Princess: Stephen Tompkins on Pocahontas accepting white supremacy

Charles Bird King's Sequoyah   Talking Leaves: Thomas Bierowski on Sequoyah and the Cherokee Syllabary

Chapter 29 of Last of the Mohicans by Thomas Cole   A Dying Race:  Tracey A. Cummings on Cole, Cooper, and the Mohicans

A patriotic graduation play at Carlisle   Native American Pilgrims: Barbara Lee on graduation at Carlisle Indian School

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These web essays were done for Prof Gallagher's "America's Many Beginnings" course at Lehigh University, Fall 1997

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