Stolen Continents: Five Hundered Years of Conquest and Resistance in the AmericasPowerful and passionate, Stolen Continents is a history of the Americas unlike any other. This incisive single-volume report tells the stories of the conquest and survival of five great American cultures — Aztec, Maya, Inca, Cherokee, and Iroquois. Through their eloquent words, we relive their strange, tragic experiences — including, in a new epilogue, incidents that bring us up to the twenty-first century. |
Contents
Discovery | 3 |
Aztec | 143 |
Maya | 161 |
Inca | 177 |
Cherokee | 292 |
Rediscovery | 343 |
| 383 | |
Acknowledgments | 402 |
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