The Roanoke Voyages, 1584–1590

Quinn, David B.

doi:10.4324/9781315085364

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“…The semantic contrast between Lane's use of savages and Harriot's (Quinn 1991) use of naturall inhabitants underscores what is at stake in Harriot's text. The express value Harriot attaches to his depiction of the Ossomocomuck runs directly counter to the image Lane offers.…”

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“…Harriot's Report (Quinn 1991) seeks to downplay the dangers the reported about the failures of 1585-86 by others. The purveyors of such rumors, Harriot insists, had merely lived such a charmed and pampered existence that they would misinterpret any minor hardship in obtaining one's own means of sustenance as a threat to life itself (323).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Most of what we know about Manteo and Wanachese's participation in the 1585-86 mission comes not from Harriot, but instead from Ralph Lane's (Quinn 1991) account of events from the year, which presents a rather different picture of the people Lane refers to as savages. In his narrative of a violent campaign that he waged against Ossomocomuck communities up the Pamlico river throughout the spring of 1586, Lane reports that Manteo acted as an essential intermediary and interpreter on behalf of the English (189)(190)(191)(192).…”

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Nature and the native

Vasko

2022

Critical Research on Religion

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Critics of climate collapse and colonization in the Americas rightly identify the origin of these twin crises in early modern political theologies. They seek to combat these crises with new political theologies of nature that pay greater reverence to “native” peoples’ ecological knowledge. But in doing so, these critics subtly, perhaps unwittingly, recall elements of the colonial power they criticize. I explain why this is the case, examining Bartolomé de Las Casas’s use of naturales in his critiques of Spanish Conquest, and Thomas Harriot’s use of naturall inhabitants in his writing on English colonization to describe “native” Americans. Both authors aimed to promote politico-theological reverence for “native” peoples and their relationships with “nature.” This set into motion a productive form of power operating in modern political theologies. This power works by legitimizing the European-Christian presence in the Americas through their ability to recognize, respect, and protect “native” relationships with “nature.”

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Section: Naturall Inhabitantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Naturall Inhabitantsmentioning

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