Caroline Dodds Pennock asks readers to rethink their assumptions about the Indigenous people of the Americas who, by coercion or choice, went to Europe during the long sixteenth century. Far from being “oddities” (2), these travelers were “central characters” (243) in both Indigenous and European history who helped globalize the world. Scholars have cataloged all sorts of ways that transatlantic encounters transformed lives and environments, yet most of this work has emerged from the assumption that European explorers and conquerors were the active agents who both initiated contact and mediated the transmission of American things and ideas back to Europe. But “recognizing the mobility of Native peoples” across the Atlantic and their ubiquity “in the heart of empire” enables the outline of a different story to emerge, one in which we can “recognize the direct influence of Indigenous peoples” on transatlantic exchanges and “European culture itself” (19). According to Pennock,...

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