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PART ONE: Exploration and Colonization (1492-1700) 1
Iroquois creation narrative
A tale of the foundation of the great island, now north america- the two infants born, and the creation of the universe 11
Akimel O'odham creation narrative 14
The story of the creation 15
CONTEXT AND RESPONSE: Bible, King James version, Genesis 1-3 18
Christopher Columbus (1451- 1506) 26
Letter to Luis de Santangel regarding the first voyage 27
From Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella regarding the fourth voyage 27
GALLERY: Spanish Narratives of Exploration and colonization
Bartolome de las Casa (1474 - 1566), From the devastation of the Indies: Hispaniola 35
Bernal Diaz del Castillo (1492 - 1584), From the truthful history of the conquest of new spain 37
Nahuati Elegies 44
Letter from Dona Isabel de Guevara to the governing Princess Dona Juana 46
Catalina de Erauseo (1592 -1650), From Lieutenant Nun 48
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648-95), Prologue to the reader 54
John Smith (1580 - 1631) 56
From the general historie of virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles
From The Third Book 57
From The fourth Book 65
CONTEXT AND RESPONSE: Pocahontas and her world 69
William Bradford (1590-1657)
From Of Plymouth Plantation
Book I, Chapter IX. Of their Voyage, and Hoe They Passes the Sea; and of their safe arrival at cape cod 78