This is the first work to begin to fill a gap: an understanding of
discourse aimed to persuade within the Pre-Columbian Americas. The
contributors in this collection offer glimpses of what those indigenous
rhetorics might have looked like and how their influences remain. The
reader is invivted to recognize "the invention of the Americas,"
providing other ways to contemplate material life prior to contemporary
capitalism, telling us about the global from long ago to current global
capitalism. This book is the drop that will ripple, creating new lines
of inquiry into language use within the Americas and the legacies of
genocide, conquest, and cultural survival.