Stolen Continents: The "New World" Through Indian Eyes

Presents native accounts--some translated for the first time from native American languages--of the plunder and persecution wrought by white settlers and explorers on the one hundred million people already living in the Americas in 1492. Now in paperback, the native histories of the Aztec, Maya, Inca, Cherokee, and Iroquois peoples. Stolen Continents tells the story, much of it in the native's own words, of five great American civilizations raped, colonized, and suppressed by Europeans but still miraculously surviving. Contents Author’s Note Part One. Invasion Prologue: Discovery 1 Aztec 2 Maya 3 Inca 4 Cherokee 5 Iroquois Part Two. Resistance 6 Aztec 7 Maya 8 Inca 9 Cherokee 10 Iroquois Part Three. Rebirth 11 Aztec 12 Maya 13 Inca 14 Cherokee 15 Iroquois Epilogue: Rediscovery Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index Historical account of the Old World and the New, unlike Asia and Africa America never saw its colonizers leave Columbus fell from royal grace, lost his governorship, and died in Spain poor and half forgotten.