1. While the scene of colonial North America was one of complex cultural negotiation and explosive interactions among American Indians, Africans and Europeans, history books have portrayed the settlement of North America as a unilinear push of Europeans into a virgin land. Although primary documentation –government reports, travel accounts, trade journals, all written from a European perspective – is literally filled with observations concerning American Indian customs and beliefs,     history books are more interested in outlining battles.  Ethnohistorians, the scholars who blend anthropology´s insights with historical research to produce a cultural understanding of the past, have been making advances in understanding an American Indian perspective of European colonization.

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