I learned a lot from this video. It’s amazing what peoples heads are still filled with like Columbus should be celebrated and that things were fair between the explorers and the Indians.
The explorers were more like intruders if u ask me. They came in bearing gifts and promises. Promises of which, for the most part, never came true. The Indians were using only what they needed and nothing more and preserving what they had. Then came the travelers in search of a new world and discovered what was already occupied. Columbus stated in one of his journal entries "They should be good servants.... I, our Lord being pleased, will take hence, at the time of my departure, six natives for your Highnesses." Why? They are people too and I don’t see the reason for taking them as slaves. They are smart with the land and a lot could be learned from them. That would make more sense to me.
The Indians were not in search of trouble, or causing any harm as much as getting pulled into what would soon become a never-ending war.
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