Francis Jennings looks at the destruction of native cultures in the Americas

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  From the simple kin structured bands as  diverse immense complex cities such as Cahokia on the Mississippi, author Francis Jennings looks at Native American life and history is an exhaustic  work and study of Native Americans.min his book "Founders Of America" Jennings looks at the migratory nomadic movement from Siberia as they established networks and settlements all the way down to South America. He has much informative information on classical Indian movements and dispersions and how their conquest of wilderness should the adaptability of these people in surviving some of the diverse harshest environmental conditions on Earth. A pretty scientific work looking at mesoAmerican cultural societies and their distinctions and other agricultural innovations  this book basically is looking at much pre-contact history and movements before the arrival of Europeans. In the middle of the reading the author starts going onto the Spanish and French intrusions that changed the way these people wold live forever. This forms a large part of Jennings books as the transformation of Indian society and it becoming Latin America. The Spanish were horrified by many Native religious customs and this loathing pretty much sums why the Spaniards had such religious zeal to vanquish this culture. The fallacy of frontier history is also repeated by Jennings through this book as he justify states that there was never a frontier and that people populated all regions with the coming of the English and French the French massacre and genocide against the Foxes is the basis of one chapter that takes a rare look at some of the French atrocities on the  Natives that is often overlooked at their otherwise ability to make allies of many Indians. Jennings has been dead for some time but his books on early America and the pre-Colombian civilization are perhps some of the best research out there.