Timucua in deer clothing: friendship, resistance, and Protestant identity in sixteenth-century Florida

摘要: Abstract Using the lens of an engraving indigenous deer hunters in sixteenth-century Florida, this essay explores formation a resistant Protestant identity through French Huguenot attempt to colonize Florida between 1562 and 1565. The approached Timucuan people that region diplomatic strategy friendship, hoping win their allegiance against Spanish favor reformed religion. Though intention was offer more appealing alternative coercion, also practiced dissimulation these friendships as they pursued alliances with richest most powerful native leaders region. According contemporary physiological theory early reformist critiques religious hypocrites, real feigned put danger assimilation by Timucua at risk drawing God's providential rage them, especially when ran out food became dependent on indigeno...