Christopher Columbus Document Analysis

In this primary document, we learn more about the naives description wise in detailed as opposed to many of the other documents we have discussed. Though they did talk about how the natives praised them, the document did focus more on how they acted without severe or exaggerated descriptions. I found this interesting because we finally were able to put together a better image then we had before. As opposed to the documented letter written by Christopher Columbus you get a different feel here.In addition to the message of the clear image of the natives the second message was clear, the spanish were there to take the land over and to steal the riches away from the land.

As discussed by my classmates and I we did come to the conclusion that most

Take this for example you see a person for the first time and they approach you most of the time you are not going to be rude or violent, you may be nice and try to see who they are and what they want. The same thing was probably done by the native people of the land but we don’t exactly know due to the fact that we do not speak that language nor were we there at the time but curiosity probably came off as them being very easy to please and very docile people. In the documentary we watched we observed other behaviors which state otherwise but that is getting myself into a different subject. Also in the document Pero Vaz de Camiha also explains how the natives were telling him that there was gold and silver amongst other things on the land, all because they were simply pointing at the object and then towards the land, who really knows if this is what they were saying, or it could have been interperted as saying “ I want that give it to me so I can bring it back home”. Maybe they simply wanted the items but that is not what the spanish wanted to believe, they wanted to believe that they found something great, that they discovered great land and to record and send their findings

Somethings never change no matter how much time goes by and its quite a shame. Through the years so much of their lifestyles have changed because of all the influences and we are only making matter worse by continuing to strip away all of the riches left or attempting to change their religious belief. Latin America still continues to this day to show its true beauty and power there are still treasures that are yet to be discovered by any man. Because of the constant intrusion of the larger more powerful countries that go in and try to ‘help’, in the end, most of the time, only leads to more hurt than anything else. Some traditions have been lost in time while other trading are still fighting to stay alive, many elder in many of these countries don’t let the new generations forget about their true roots and their true beliefs, way before anything was introduced to them of foreign decent. Keep Latin America authenticity has always been the