Indians and Europe: An Interdisciplinary Collection of Essays

North American Indians have fired the imaginations of Europeans for the past five hundred years. The Native populations of North America have served a variety of European cultural and emotional needs, ranging from noble savage role models for Old World civilization to a more sympathetic portrayal as subjugated victims of American imperialism.

This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection of essays offers the first in-depth, extended look at the complicated, changing relationship between...