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Saintly Founder: Jennifer Marshall on the religious Isabella and ColumbusSleeping Beauty: Edward J. Gallagher on Vespucci awakening the New World
Cynocephales: Celia J. Shiffer on the Native Americans as dog-headed cannibals
Commodified Cannibals: Harry J. Brown on De Bry's Black Legend Tupinambas
Indian Princess: Stephen Tompkins on Pocahontas accepting white supremacy
Talking Leaves: Thomas Bierowski on Sequoyah and the Cherokee Syllabary
A Dying Race: Tracey A. Cummings on Cole, Cooper, and the Mohicans
Native American Pilgrims: Barbara Lee on graduation at Carlisle Indian School
These web essays were done for Prof Gallagher's "America's Many Beginnings" course at Lehigh University, Fall 1997