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During 1563, Fray Pedro De Feria wrote a letter from Mexico City to the King of Spain about Paquiquineo; a native boy who was kidnapped and left to De Feria keeping. The letter explains what De Feria thought about while Paquiquineo came into his care. De Feria baptized the Indians because they have begged to be baptized a few times and they were both sick when they had arrived in his care. De Feria stated in his letter on how he learned their desired of being baptized and seeing how sick they were when they had arrived to him from Spain, he baptized them. He even said that their Lord was moved by the desire of the Indians wanting to be baptized, that when they were, they recovered from their sickness. De Feria
Columbus and de las Casas were both explorers of the new world. They both encountered Native Americans and their treatment of them was both similar and different. Columbus viewed the Native American as subhumans. He did not have much respect for the people of the land and treated them as such. In his letter to Luis de Santangel, Columbus says how he took possession of the native’s highnesses by proclamation. He also discloses how no one fought back which then made native Americans seem weak. He also states how he already took Indians aboard with him.At one instance Columbus had a dispute with Spainards and decided to give up Indians as a peace offering. Which he states in the letter to that tey were not his to give
In 1514 de Soto sailed with the new governor of modern day Panama. Six years later he was a captain who because of his part in military action against the Indians of Panama had earned the right to own Indian Sl...
In 1492, Christopher Columbus was a self-made man who worked his way up to being the Captain of a merchant vessel. He gained the support of the Spanish monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, for an expedition to the Indies. With the support of the Spanish monarchy, he set off to find a new and faster trade route to the Indies. Upon the arrival of his first voyage, Columbus wrote a letter to Luis de Santangel, a “royal official and an early supporter of his venture,” in February 1493 (35). The epistle, letter, entitled “Letter to Luis de Santangel Regarding the First Voyage” was copied and then distributed in Spain before being translated and spread throughout Europe. The Letter is held in such regard with the people as it is considered the first printed description of the new world. Through his description of the nature of the islands, Columbus decided the future fate of the islands. His description of the vast beauty of the nature around him, declares both the economic and nationalistic motivations for colonizing the new world.
The discovery and conquest of American Indians inspired efforts to develop an ideology that could justify why they needed to enslave the Indians. The Spanish monarch wanted an ideal empire. "A universal empire, of which all their subjects were but servants. Charles V remained for them the dominus mundi, the legitimate and God-ordained lord of the world." (Weckmann, The Transit of Civilization, 23) Gold and religious conversion was the two most important inspirations for conquistadors in conquering America. Father Bartolome De Las Casas was a Dominican priest who came to the New World to convert the Indians to become Christians. He spent forty years on Hispanolia and nearby islands, and saw how the Spaniards brutally treated the Indians and sympathized with them. The Devastation of the Indies was an actual eyewitness account of the genocide by Las Casas, and his group of Dominican friars in which he demonizes the Spanish colonists and praises the Indians. Father Las Casas returned to Seville, where he published his book that caused an on going debate on whether the suppression of the Indians corrupted the Spaniards' values. What Las Casas was trying to achieve was the notion of human rights, that human beings are free and cogent by nature without the interference of others.
Bartolomé de Las Casas was born in 1484 AD in Seville and died in 1566 in Madrid. In the ending of the 15th century and the beginning of 16th, he came to America and become a “protector of Indian”. In 1542, most based on his effort, Spain has passed the New Law, which prohibit slaving Indians (Foner, p. 7). In 1552, he published the book A Short Account of the Destruction of The Indies.
The Spaniards utopian goals were to envision Catholicism in the Native Americans community and prohibit France from any economic prosperity. Although the motive was economic gains within Florida and New Mexico, religion was the essential factor for permanent settlement within these two regions. With that said, Indian resistance and conflicts began to arise due to the Encomienda System the Spaniards placed among Pueblos (Native group in New Mexico). The cause of an enormous dynamic between the Natives and the Spaniards was religion. The Spaniards “took away their idols and forbade their sorceries pertaining their ancient customs,” and due to this Catholic priests concluded that the Natives were inferior to them and they were incapable of understanding Catholicism. The indigenous persecutions that took place degraded the Natives population due to religious reasons. It wasn’t until the Pueblo Revolution and one of successful rebellions against the Europeans, Native Americans shortly received their
Fray Luis Cancer was a Dominican that was born in the 1500s in Barbastro, now modern day Spain. . Luis Cancer was a priest and was best known for his expeditions as a Spanish missionary around the New World. He first lived in the convent of Santo Domingo located in Mexico. Early in his life he was influenced by ruling by terror and force. He had heard of Vaca and Moscoso’s voyages (two ministers before Luis Cancer), and the horror and violence they had used terrified him. Because of this, his main goal as a missionary was to convert Indians to Christianity by kindness and being a good example, rather than with force or violence. Fray Luis Cancer first preached and ministered in Puerto Rico to the Taino Indians, which was a success. He believed
How are you doing ?I’m ok .Mama got caught in a dust storm in the packing sheds .She got valley fever .It means that she swallowed a couple of dust spores.Most people just fight it off,but she didn’t. So mama is in the hospital.She has been there about three months.I think she will be fine in a couple of months.
“The Conquest of New Spain” is the first hand account of Bernal Diaz (translated by J.M. Cohen) who writes about his personal accounts of the conquest of Mexico by himself and other conquistadors beginning in 1517. Unlike other authors who wrote about their first hand accounts, Diaz offers a more positive outlook of the conquest and the conquistadors motives as they moved through mainland Mexico. The beginning chapters go into detail about the expeditions of some Spanish conquistadors such as Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba, Juan de Grijalva and Hernando Cotes. This book, though, focuses mainly on Diaz’s travels with Hernando Cortes. Bernal Diaz’s uses the idea of the “Just War Theory” as his argument for why the conquests were justifiable
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Lying, deception, and miscommunication as themes within Benito Cereno and Why I live at the P.O is significantly evident throughout both narratives. Although, the methods in which fabrication is utilized varies, Stella Rondo, Babo,and Cereno do so because they figure it is in one’s best interest. In, Why I live at the P.O Stella Rondo is perceived as the favorite child and doesn't hesitate to exploit it to her convenience when it's time to face her family. Babo is as clever as someone could be and knows how to get people where he wants them. Unfortunately, Cereno isn't as witty and can’t manage to keep up with his portion of the “truth”. In the end none of these characters are able to convince one character ( Sister and Delano ) of their misleading stories. As a result the characters are stuck between what they believe is the truth and what is reality and in a sense becomes their validity.
On June 17, 1527, Cabeza de Vaca set sail on the order to conquer and govern the lands from the Rio Grande to the cape of Florida. However, during his journey he encountered much devastation such as the wrecking of his ship which resulted in his separation from the majority of his Christian companions. Praying to God after every ordeal, Cabeza routinely sought after his Christian religion to guide him through his unexpected journey. While traveling through the interior of America, he also encountered many native tribes which inhabited the land. While most of the Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century spread their religion through warlike ways and rearranged societies for the sole purpose of their own economic gain, Cabeza thought that kindness was the only way to win the hearts of the natives and without clothes or any material possessions, he upheld his promise and beliefs. After being enslaved by the natives Cabeza moved from tribe to tribe with the hope of finding his fellow Christians while praising and thanking God that his life was spared. Moving from tribe to tribe as a medicine man Cabeza still lived by his Christian teachings and implemented them into the way that he communicated with the natives, ultimately converting many tribes into Christianity. The religion of Christianity directly influenced the way in which Cabeza de Vaca interacted and felt toward the natives, thus throughout the duration of his time traveling across the interior of America, Cabeza was able to continually practice his religious beliefs while also being able to convert many Indians to his religion at the same time.
In the late 1500's after the disappointment of Coronado's non-glorious expedition was forgotten, Spain had a renewed interest in New Mexico. King Philip II needed a new conquistador to go to New Mexico to obtain and claim the 3 G's (Gold, Glory, and God) for the crown and for the country. The man chosen to fill this job was Juan de Onate. Being of noble Basque blood it seems that Juan de Onate was destined to become someone of importance. It is said that the Basque people were "Hardy, self-reliant, and stubbornly strong" and "In New Spain won distinction as explorers, soldiers, and discoverers of mines on the frontier." Juan's father Cristobal de Onate was one of those Basque people described above. In 1546 Cristobal along with a few other Basque men discovered a silver mine in Mexico, but was already rich due to his many encomiendas, his salary as a lieutenant-governor, and many other businesses he owned. Given Juan de Onate's tremendous wealth and outstanding family history King Philip thought that he had found an excellent conquistador, but would soon find out that he was wrong.
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo had an important status in the Americas. That gave the Spanish a good reputation and allowed them to gain territories a lot quicker and easier. Cabrillo was a leading official in Guatemala’s large town of Santiago, according to the National Park Services article about him. He lived there with his wife, Beatriz Sanchez de Ortega...
De Las Casas is a very important religious figure in the sixteenth century. He was born in Seville Spain and was closely acquainted with Christopher Columbus through de Las Casas’ father, Pedro de Las Casas (PBS, 2010). Pedro de Las Casas was one of the voyageurs during Christopher Columbus second expedition to the New World (PBS, 2010). At the age of 18 de Las Casas sailed to the Caribbean and was granted land and one hundred native labors (PBS, 2010). He later returned to Spain before travelling to Italy ...