European thinkers in early modernity, John Locke chief among them, looked to Europe’s encounter with Indigenous peoples and pored over the developing body of “native information” to lay the foundation of a political order not derived from Scripture or Church Authority but from presumptively secular natural rights and reason of “the people.”
Timothy Vasko’s Making All the World America documents how theological hermeneutics and post-theological thought that emerged in late Renaissance and early Enlightenment discovery discourses were renegotiated through native information
Timothy Vasko’s Making All the World America is a serious provocation to the present, demanding that its audience think beyond claims often thrown about in representations of Indigenous peoples today.