Index of American Pentimento

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Abraham (Biblical figure), 93

Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act (1976); See Northern Territory Act (1976) On-line Information  On-line Information

aborigines,* 165, 166, 182

Acadia, 56

Acosta, José de, 61, 69, 100

Adams, John Quincy, 158

Africa (see also East Africa; North Africa; West Africa), 8, 163, 164

Africans, 149

agriculture. See farming

Alaska, 179

Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (1971), 185

Algeria, 183

Algonkians (people), 3, 56

Algonquian (language), 164  Information

aljama, 76, 78, 84. See also community

Amazon, 98, 141, 144, 145, 174, 182, 189

Americas, 153, 190

American natives, x, 11

Amsterdam, 110

Andalusia, 76, 77, 84, 85

Andes, 78, 122

Anglo-Saxons, 5, 8, 93, 124, 126

Apalachees, 17, 134, 169 On-line Information

"apportionment," 62

Aquinas, Thomas, 118

Arabs, 132

Aragon, 74, 83, 85, 87, 88

Arawak, 143

archaeology, 173

Argentina, 91, 105, 164, 173, 183, 189

Asia, 8, 147, 153, 163, 164

assets, native, seizure of, 116

assimilation, Spanish aversion to, 102

Australia, 12, 153, 156, 165, 166, 173, 179, 182, 183, 186, 190

Australian Northern Territories, 182

autonomy, native, 84

Axtell, James, 46

Ayamara, 177

Aztecs, x, 3, 77, 79, 80, 100, 122, 148 More On-line Information


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Bacon, Francis, 36

Bahia, 106, 142

Balboa, Vasco de, 96

Balkan Peninsula, 93

bandeirantes. See slave raiding

barbed wire, 159

Barentsen, Pieter, 111

Barros, João, 30

Barsh, Russel, 168

Belknap, Jeremy, 158

Berners, Juliana, 49

Biard, Pierre, 56

Bible, 120, 128, 129

Bierce, Ambrose, 16

Black Death, 142

"black gold." See natural resources, oil

blacks, 119

Blackstone, William, 155, 165

Blith, Walter, 39

Bogotá, 105

Bolivia, 177, 180, 188

boundaries. See enclosure movement, English; fences; moral boundaries; political boundaries; spatial boundaries

Bradford, William, x, 109, 110, 127, 128

Brazil, 7, 30, 55, 99, 103, 106, 108, 134, 140, 152, 173, 175, 179, 183, 189

British Columbia, 155, 169, 184, 185


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Cabeza de Vaca, Alvaro Núñez. See Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvaro

Caddos, 92Information

Caeté, 106, 110

Calvinists, 53

Campbell, Ben Nighthorse, 177

Campos Moreno, Diogo de, 146

Canada, 8, 36, 56, 155, 156, 172, 173, 175, 183, 185, 186

Canadian Constitution Act (1982), 185

Canadian Indian Act (1884), 175

Canadians, 166

Canberra, 182

cannibalism, 91–92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 99, 101, 105, 108, 111, 113, 115, 118, 121, 122, 128, 130,133, 136, 139, 174; Bororo aversion to, 98; Caddoan, 92; English fear of, 109–10; European, 111, 112; European revenge for, 110; Huron, 98; Iroquois, 92, 98; Mayan, 92; Mohawk, 98; native, Iberian depictions of, 114, 173; Oneida, 98; InformationPawnee, 92;Rarámuri aversion to, 98; ritual, 97–98, 109, 173; and slavery, 103–105, 106, 107,146, 148; Spanish outrage at, 110; surrogate, 98; survival, 97, 111; Tupi, 91, 98, 109

capital (see also money), 15, 26, 114, 115, 165

capital theory, 26

Caribbean, 3, 8, 36, 67, 77, 96, 98, 101, 142

Caribes, 104, 105

Carmelites, 144

Carson National Forest, 184

Carter, James, 186

cash (see also money), 21

Castile, 62, 83, 85, 88

Castilians, 60, 61

Castillo, Bernal Díaz del. See Díaz del Castillo, Bernal

Catalonia, 76

Catholicism, 119, 121, 122, 150; Iberian, 121; priesthood, 120, 176; rituals of, 94, 123; See also Catholics; missions; names of individual orders; Roman Catholic Church

Catholics, 111, 117, 149; French, 118; Spanish, 118. See also
Catholicism; Roman Catholic Church

Caucases, 93

Cervantes de Salazar, Francisco, 95, 96

Champlain, Samuel de, 35

charcoal. See natural resources, charcoal

Charlemagne, 114

Charles V, Holy Roman emperor, 43, 44, 66, 68, 77, 83, 84

Cherokees, 134, 159, 168, 169, 170

Chiapas revolt, 177, 188

Chichimecas, 104, 105

Chile, 103, 105, 180, 188, 189

Christ, 93, 94, 106, 117

Christianity, 120, 124, 133, 176; beliefs, Spanish fear of
corruption 123; converts to, Jewish, 120, 123, 146; converts to, native, 120; "Old Christianity," 117, 120; Protestants, 118; rituals of, 120. See also Catholicism; Christians; "Christians, the"; evangelizing Christianizing. See evangelizing Christians, 60, 61, 62, 63, 73, 75, 76, 77, 79, 84, 85, 87, 88, 92, 93, 101,103, 104, 105, 107, 114, 115, 116, 125, 126, 133, 177–78; Iberian, 74, 94, 124, 140

"Christians, the," 116, 117, 118, 121, 126, 136, 139

civil rights: of market access, 170; of property ownership, 170;
of pursuit of profit, 170, 178; of "recreation," 170

class. See middle class

Clenardo, 27

climate, 131

Clinton, George, 25

clothing, 74, 89

coal. See natural resources, coal

Coke, Edward, 32, 48

Colbert, Jean-Baptiste, 50

"cold war," 92, 103

Colombia, 179, 180

colonialism: nineteenth- and twentieth-century European, 7, 168

colonists, xi, 152; Dutch, 8, 36, 45, 55, 56, 71, 107, 110; economic objectives of, 5; English, xi, 2, 3, 8–9, 13, 23, 28, 55, 57, 72, 100, 105, 107, 109, 114, 126, 129, 133, 135, 150; French, 3, 8, 36, 45, 55, 56, 107, 114; Portuguese, xi, 3, 45, 55, 56, 57, 60, 99, 100, 103, 105, 135, 136, 139, 147, 150; Spanish, xi, 3, 45, 56, 57, 60, 62, 67, 72, 97, 100, 103, 105, 118, 125, 150

colonization, 2, 5; English, 3, 9, 13, 14, 29, 92, 152; Spanish, 3, 9

Columbus, Christopher, 63, 77, 83, 101

commerce, 123, 135, 137, 148, 165, 172

commercial model: Dutch, 135; French, 135; Portuguese, 135, 136

commodity, 19; Brazil nuts, 140, 141; brazilwood, 137, 139, 141; coral, 137; hides, 145; pepper, 138; porcelain, 137; shellac, 137; silks, 137; spices, 138; vanilla, 140, 141. See also crops; money; payment; purchase; presents

common land, shared, 162

communal use rights, 35

community, 64, 65, 76, 78, 80; subjugated, 73, 84, 87

community autonomy: Muslim, 76; Jewish, 76

Connecticut, 178

conquest: of nature, 160; of people—Spanish, 2, 3; of property—English, 2

conquests: Arabic, 4; Berber, 4; Islamic, 75; German, 4; Scandinavian, 4. See also Norman Conquest

conservation, 161

contracts, 23, 75

Cook, James, 110

Copeland, Patrick, 35

Cordoba, 92

Cortés, Hernán, x, 44, 67, 77, 84, 96, 100, 104, 105, 108, 147

cotton. See crops, cotton

Cotton, John, 20, 38, 52, 53

courts: Spanish, 84, 87. See also legal and economic systems: Spanish

Crashaw, Richard, 101

credit (see also money), 21

Croke, George, 14

Cronon, William, 39

crops: coffee, 127; cotton, 127, 169; indigo, 127; sugar, 127, 139, 143, 144, 145; tobacco, 39, 127, 139, 143 Cuba, 67, 173, 179

Cummins, John, 50

Cushman, Robert, 38, 128

customshouses, Brazilian, 138; for West African goods, 137, 139; for South Asian goods, 137, 139


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Dakota (place), 187

Dakotas (people), 176, 178 

Dann, Carrie and Mary, 161, 187

Dawes, Henry, 158

decolonization, 163, 190

de Vries, David, 17

dhimma, 75, 84. See also community

Dias, Carlos Malhiero. See Malhiero Dias, Carlos

Díaz del Castillo, Bernal, 95, 100, 108

Dineh, 164 Information

disease, native deaths from, 43, 44, 68, 79, 80, 86, 135, 142–43, 145

Dominican Republic. See Hispaniola

Dominicans, 66, 67, 118

donatários. See "lord proprietors"

Donne, John, 70

dress, 132, 177; European, 144


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East Africa (see also Africa), 12, 153

Eburne, Richard, 35, 36

economic: activities, 6-7; aims, 11, 132; ambitions, 115, 116; assets, native, 174; consequences, 172; control, 112; customs, Muslim, 60; development, native, 185; development, Portuguese, 136; disputes, 84; goals, Anglo, 178; goals,
Iberian, 178; goods, inheritance of, 85; interests, Jesuit, 145; interests, Portuguese, 145; marriage exchanges, 86; motives, 124, 141; object, 7; objectives, 9, 101; punishment, 122; role, 9; rules, European, 8; traditions, 6-7

economics, 114, 125, 131, 133, 147, 149, 150, 157, 163, 164, 166, 167, 169, 176, 177, 182, 189

Ecuador, 180, 182, 183, 188

Edward, duke of York, 49, 55

Edward I, king of England, 70

Eliot, John, 147

Elizabeth I, queen of England, 13, 29, 49

empire: labor-based Spanish, 136; land-based English, 136; trade-based Portuguese, 136

enclosure movement, English, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 58

encomienda, 62, 63, 65, 101, 142. See also trusteeship

English (language), 164

enslavement. See slavery

environment, damage to, 186

epidemics. See disease, native deaths from

Eric IX, king of Denmark, 114

Essex, 91, 111

evangelizing, 63, 66, 69, 78, 85, 106, 141, 143, 145; Arabic
lack of, 75. See also missions

evil, 6

exchange: attitudes toward, Dutch, 22, 23; attitudes toward, English, 22; attitudes toward,


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*"Aborigine" derives from the Latin, meaning "original inhabitants.