1. Antonio de Nebrija,Gramática castellana(1492; repr.Halle, Belgium,1909), fol. 1, quoted inPatricia Seed,Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World, 1492–1640(New York,1995),8.
2. Michel-Rolph Trouillot,Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History(Boston,1995),115.
3. Some Thoughts on Colonial Historians and American Indians