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Review of Merwick\u27s The Shame and the Sorrow: Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland
Review of Viola\u27s After Columbus: The Smithsonian Chronicle of the North American Indians
Review of van der Donck\u27s A Description of New Netherland and Wendell\u27s To Do Justice to Him & Myself
Review of Meuwese\u27s Brothers in Arms, Partners in Trade: Dutch-Indigenous Alliances in the Atlantic World, 1595-1674
Review of Kidd\u27s God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution and Fea\u27s Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? A Historical Introduction
Review of Shorto\u27s The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America
This is that which . .. they call Wampum Europeans Coming to Terms with Native Shell Beads
The Native American-European encounter created a multitude of opportunities for understanding and misunderstanding. Linguistic and cultural barriers contributed to the complexity of cross-cultural understanding. In the ca.\u3ee of tubular shell beads known today as wampum, Europeans sought a suitable term to describe the unfamiliar cultural goods that served Native people in ways unfamiliar to Europeans. The French, Dutch, and English experimented with diverse terms-both Native and European-eventually settling on porcelaine, sewant, and wampum, respectively. In doing so, they drew on their linguistic and cultural backgrounds while coming to terms with the Native American languages they encountered. A study of these cross-cultural interactions reveals the nuances and the limits of European understanding, and it demonstrates the cultural linguistic legacy of European colonization
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