The Construction of Indigenous Americans and Spanish Conquistadors in Theodore de Bry’s Engravings

“The Construction of Indigenous Americans and Spanish Conquistadors in Theodore de Bry’s Engravings,” an Outcome archive entry by Isabel V. Maine-Torres. The entry belongs to the crosscurrents collection and connects readers to scholarship, public history, and organizing around the Doctrine of Discovery, Christian domination, Indigenous sovereignty, law, religion, land, memory, and accountability.

In brief, it addresses The primary visual sources depicting the treatment of Indigenous peoples by conquerors, particularly the works of Protestant engraver Theodore de Bry, offer valuable insights into the interactions between. For readers arriving from the main Doctrine of Discovery site, this post functions as a pointer rather than a replacement for the full Outcome record. The canonical page preserves the complete context, metadata, author information, citation links, media, and neighboring materials in the archive.

The source text highlights terms and contexts including INTRODUCTION When looking at primary, visual sources that depict the treatment of Indigenous peoples by conquerors, Protestant engraver Theodore de Bry’s works are incredibly popular and insightful.1 De Bry, born in 1528 and working until his death in 1598, illustrated and wrote his own books containing engravings that depicted the customs, communities, and atrocities committed against Indigenous Americans as they came into contact with European explorers. Aside from his own writing, de Bry also illustrated a version of Bartolomé de Las Casas’s Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias almost 50 years after it was written.2 In Brevísima relación, Las. Read the canonical Outcome page for the complete entry.

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