Events Tagged: "indigenous"

Potatoes first cultivated in Andes Mountains - indigenous peoples develop hundreds of varieties, freeze-drying techniques (chuño)

Jesuit Relations from New France begin (1609-1614) - Detailed ethnographic accounts - Creates 'noble savage' as justification for cultural destruction

Blessed Marie of the Incarnation arrives in New France - Mystical union while teaching native children - 'I saw all nations in the Heart of Jesus'

Baron de Lahontan's Dialogues with 'Adario' (1690s-1700s) - Fictional native critiques European society - 'We are born free and united brothers' - Real indigenous voice replaced by European ventriloquism

La Condamine's Amazon expedition returns with accounts of indigenous life - Rousseau reads avidly