Colonial identifications for native Americans in the Carolinas, 1540-1790
- UNCW Author/Contributor (non-UNCW co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- David Lewington Crane (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW )
- Web Site: http://library.uncw.edu/
- Advisor
- Paul Townend
Abstract: In the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries the powers of Europe competed in
an imperial struggle for control of the Americas. While exploring the Americas, Europeans
encountered people whose descendents had lived in the Americas for ten thousand years. The
ways in which European colonists identified Native Americans varied between time and place,
and depended on the role Native Americans played in their colonial projects. The Spanish
Crown colonized the Caribbean, Central and South America, and the Gulf Coast of the United
States. The English colonized parts of the Caribbean and the eastern seaboard of North America.
The two nations each ventured into a region that came to be known as the Carolinas, between the
Chesapeake Bay in Virginia and the Florida Peninsula.
This thesis will argue that Spanish and English colonists in the Carolinas based their
identifications for Native Americans on several factors. Their identifications for Native
Americans reflected the usefulness of Native American polities to the Spanish and English in
achieving their goals of colonization, their preconceptions about Native Americans they intended
to colonize, and the nature of their relationships with Native American polities in the Carolinas.
Colonial identifications for native Americans in the Carolinas, 1540-1790
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Thesis
- A Thesis Submitted to the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of Masters of Arts
- Language: English
- Date: 2009
- Keywords
- Indians of North America
- Subjects
- Indians of North America