readings on cultural exchange after 1492 : a joint project of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and the National Council for the Social Studies
1993
A collection of primary documents and essays on the Columbus voyages and those that followed that dramatically changed life in two worlds previously unknown to each other.
It is the autumn of 1839 and Lucy, an orphan, has come to live with her aunt and uncle, who run a mission school for Indians. Aunt Emma is stern and has rules for everything; she gives the students AMerican names and dresses them in drab mission clothes. Uncle Edward tells them that the old ways are gone, and now they must fit into the white man's world. Lucy cannot understand why the Indians are the ones who must do the changing.
