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" ... "Many Spanish chroniclers detail violent cultural practices of the indigenous populations they encountered" in Panama, Smith-Guzmán and Cooke write, and "these accounts of violent mortuary rituals may have influenced the interpretation of burials encountered in excavations [at Playa Venado], leading to claims of mutilations and sacrifice, with little to no evidence." Lothrop chose to see evidence of Oviedo's 16th century Spanish accounts of the native population in the 6th-9th century cemetery he was tasked with studying. ... "
" ... Little previous evidence has been found of human sacrifice in this region of Peru. However, old historical records by Spanish chroniclers may provide clues to its purpose. Friar Antonio de la Calancha, for example, claimed that child sacrifices were made by the Chimú during lunar eclipses and were sometimes made to sacred places or huacas. And in the 16th century, Cristóbal de Molina described Inca child sacrifice, writing that children "had their live hearts taken out, and so the priests offered the beating hearts to the huacas to which the sacrifice was made." ... "
" ... Louise Erdrich is one of the foremost chroniclers of the Native American experience working in the country today, and The Round House is a perfect representation of her gifts as a storyteller. We encourage you to seek out her other work, too, once you’ve torn through this first piece. The Grass Dancer by Susan Power is another excellent novel about the Native American experience in North Dakota, and is highly recommended as additional reading for your literary journey into the plains. ... "
" ... There was little consensus among contemporaries, save that God’s hand seemed to have been guiding the actions of those who left Europe in 1095–96. Writing within the euphoria of their victory, all of these chroniclers were writing something closer to what we might today call theology than what we might today call history. Their models were biblical ones, intended to position the conquest of Jerusalem in 1099 within sacred history, using biblical models – Moses into the promised land and the victories of Joshua in one case, the Maccabees against the Greeks in another. ... "