{"id":1769,"date":"2014-10-10T18:09:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T18:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2014-10-10T18:09:59","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T18:09:59","slug":"a-european-theory-of-native-american-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2014\/10\/10\/a-european-theory-of-native-american-origins\/","title":{"rendered":"A European theory of Native American origins"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Garcia\"<\/a>Garc\u00eda, Gregorio.\u00a0 Origen de los Indios de el Nueuo Mundo, e Indias Occidentales<\/i>. (Madrid, 1729).<\/b><\/p>\n

Nowhere is the general confusion and genuine indecision of the sixteenth and early seventeenth-century theorists of Indian origins more pronounced than in this work\u2014the first book published exclusively on the issue [this is the 2nd edition, it was first published in 1607].\u00a0 Garc\u00eda spent nine years in Peru, beginning in the late 1590s.\u00a0 In order to discover as best he could what the origin of the Indians was, Garc\u00eda evaluated what he read, what he was told by both Spaniards and Indians, and what he had seen.\u00a0 The two fundamental assumptions upon which he based his book were that all men and women descended from Adam and Eve, and after the Deluge from Noah (who divided the world giving Asia to Shem, Egypt and Africa to Ham, and Europe to Japheth).\u00a0 He believed that the peoples of the Americas came to the New World from one of the three parts of the known world.\u00a0Garc\u00eda examined in detail all the opinions regarding origins current in Europe at the time–derived from the Carthaginians; the lost Jewish tribes; that Peru was the Ophir of Solomon. The “libro ultimo” contains native accounts of their origins, describing the tribes of Mexico and Peru, derived from a manuscript of Juan de Vetanzos (a companion of Pizarro). He rejected none of the origin theories, but accepted them all collectively\u2014that is, in his view, the ancestors of Native Americans came to the New World from different parts of the known world, at different times, and in different ways.<\/p>\n

See the Watkison’s copy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Garc\u00eda, Gregorio.\u00a0 Origen de los Indios de el Nueuo Mundo, e Indias Occidentales. (Madrid, 1729). Nowhere is the general confusion and genuine indecision of the sixteenth and early seventeenth-century theorists of Indian origins more pronounced than in this work\u2014the first book published exclusively on the issue [this is the 2nd edition, it was first published […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,29,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1771,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions\/1771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}