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First Encounter Intro

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Two Natives by Choris

INTRODUCTION

The first encounter between the Spaniards and First Contact Native Americans was for the latter an immeasurably strange experience, while for the former it was the habitual, well-rehearsed first element in the equation of colonization.

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