About this Book

Of Cannibals and Kings collects the very earliest accounts of the native peoples of the Americas, including selections from the descriptions of Columbus&’s first two voyages; documents reflecting the initial colonial occupation in Haiti, Venezuela, and Guyana; and the first ethnographic account of the Ta&ínos by the missionary Ram&ón Pan&é. This primal anthropology directly guided a rapacious discovery of the lands of both wild cannibals and golden kings.