I would like to point out, it was the constant practice of Human sacrifice in the Americas that a lot of tribes where more than willing to side with the Spanish to go "You want gold? Oh those dickheads that keep sacrificing people have a lot of that! Forget maps, I'll guide you to where those bastards live and help you kill them."
A lot different in North America as when it was the Europeans and then mostly British in control, they were most focused on the fur trade so had great trading relationships with them. It's when America became independent that REALLY bad shit happened...
Yea, watching Wakanda Forever (Went with the family for a birthday) was so cringe when they showed the aztecs in chains as if they were going to be made slaves by the spanish. Such blatant propaganda and a total inversion of reality.
Some of it was for lack of better words, invasion and forcing out of what used to be their land, some of it was retribution for natives siding with the British during the revolution and in the war after.
It doesn't justify the atrocities but American history classes usually skip between the beginning and end of the natives story, not the very murky and dark middle.
Not all Indian tribes behaved like the Comanche. In fact, the tribes branded as 'civilized' who did no such thing were also driven from their land when gold was found there, so yeah, they were treated like the 'vermin they were'.
I would like to point out, it was the constant practice of Human sacrifice in the Americas that a lot of tribes where more than willing to side with the Spanish to go "You want gold? Oh those dickheads that keep sacrificing people have a lot of that! Forget maps, I'll guide you to where those bastards live and help you kill them."
And also a justification for Spanish conquest.
The great thinker Francisco de Vitoria, for example, argued that conquest was unlawful and immoral, and that it could only be justified in cases where rulers imposed reprehensible customs like human sacrifice and cannibalism on their subjects. Some others had argued that the Americas were terra nullius and that they could be taken without legal justification.
I would like to point out, it was the constant practice of Human sacrifice in the Americas that a lot of tribes where more than willing to side with the Spanish to go "You want gold? Oh those dickheads that keep sacrificing people have a lot of that! Forget maps, I'll guide you to where those bastards live and help you kill them."
A lot different in North America as when it was the Europeans and then mostly British in control, they were most focused on the fur trade so had great trading relationships with them. It's when America became independent that REALLY bad shit happened...
Yea, watching Wakanda Forever (Went with the family for a birthday) was so cringe when they showed the aztecs in chains as if they were going to be made slaves by the spanish. Such blatant propaganda and a total inversion of reality.
I haven't watched anything Marvrel since Endgame so looked at the wiki
Wtf? This was the plot, dear god this is pathetic. "White people bad, everyone else of colour good" I'm glad I don't watch any of this shit anymore.
Like the massacres they committed in frontier towns. Back then the country still had balls so they were hunted down like the vermin they were.
I'd not be quick to say that and I don't mean that in a 'both sides' kind of way.
Just look at the war that happened in Florida for 6 years
Some of it was for lack of better words, invasion and forcing out of what used to be their land, some of it was retribution for natives siding with the British during the revolution and in the war after.
It doesn't justify the atrocities but American history classes usually skip between the beginning and end of the natives story, not the very murky and dark middle.
Not all Indian tribes behaved like the Comanche. In fact, the tribes branded as 'civilized' who did no such thing were also driven from their land when gold was found there, so yeah, they were treated like the 'vermin they were'.
And also a justification for Spanish conquest.
The great thinker Francisco de Vitoria, for example, argued that conquest was unlawful and immoral, and that it could only be justified in cases where rulers imposed reprehensible customs like human sacrifice and cannibalism on their subjects. Some others had argued that the Americas were terra nullius and that they could be taken without legal justification.