On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe (2023) by Caroline Dodds Pennock

Year 2025, Issue: 63, 91 - 93, 30.06.2025

İsmail Can Demir

Abstract

The writings of white authors when it comes to Indigenous-colonizer relationships have historically focused on the Europeans that have gone to the Americas. On Savage Shores by Caroline Dodds Pennock decides to flip the tables and focuses on the Indigenous people that have been brought from the Americas to Europe from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. It offers a fresh new look that challenges the readers to reconsider some of their pre-conceived notions about European-Indigenous relations throughout the first few centuries of the European colonization and invites them to reconsider Indigenous agency and how some of them viewed the “discovery” of the Americas.

Keywords

Colonization , Indigenous , Native American , Discovery , Caroline Dodds Pennock , On Savage Shores

References

• Hele, Karl. “Book review: On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe.” Anishinabek News, https://anishinabeknews.ca/2023/09/01/book-review-on-savage-shoreshow- indigenous-americans-discovered-europe/. Accessed 16 November 2024.
• Pennock, Dodds Caroline. On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe. Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.