RESILIENT CULTURES

Resilient Cultures: America's Native Peoples Confront European Colonization, 1500-1800

Resilient Cultures

In this ambitious and innovative comparative project, John Kicza considers the impact of Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch and British colonialism on a variety of indigenous societies of North and South America. He claims that throughout the Americas Indigenous peoples responded to the challenges of European colonialism, the exact form it took in each region was heavily influenced by the nature of indigenous societies in contact with the creativity and resilience. Emphasis on the importance of Native American societies to the creation of colonial those in the US-wide comparative context is the ...