How Did Native Americans Treat The Natives

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Spaniards were the first to colonize these new lands in America. Here, they encountered native people, whom they dubbed “Indians”, as they were sadly confused as to what continent they had landed on. Now, as time went on, the Spaniards were to eventually conquer these new lands and people through a process of steady culture deprivation and genocide. Spaniards looked down on these native americans often. When Columbus landed on the island he named Hispanola, he immediately sent back a ship of native slaves to the queen (who immediately rejected them and was not pleased with this, as she wanted to convert them to Christianity and save their uncivilized souls) and was quite brutish with them, treating them pretty much like vermin. The natives

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