What Are The Uncivilized Savages Of Native Americans

The rhetoric by the Spaniard accounts make it difficult to re-tell history from the indigenous people’s perspective. For example: how do you explain human sacrifice today after the Spaniards gave their account of the situation? Bloodletting is a difficult ritual to explain. The Spaniards would have you think that the indigenous people of Mesoamerica were uncivilized savages and performed human sacrifices, but did not tell the reason behind the ritual. The reason for the Spaniards to speak ill of the indigenous people of Mesoamerica was to justify the cruelty they put the Indians through and to gain support and continued funding from Spain. The Spaniards will also have us think that they came in as Liberators, Conquistadores which would imply the conquest of an enemy and an eventual assimilating of the conquered into their society adding land and people like the Roman Empire.

It was not a military conquest, but an invasion and genocide. The interest was gold, silver and any other resources they could strip from the Indians and to enslave them as well. They were more like a hoard of locust killing and contaminating everything in their path. Who really were the uncivilized savages? According to Vigil in his book “From Indians to Chicanos”, “In the Early 1500’s the indigenous population was reduced by eighty percent from disease the Spaniards brought with them and those that survived were expected to keep up the work quotas” (Vigil.) In reality, I would venture to guess that the Indian population was reduced from not just disease brought by the Spaniards, but also from the Spaniards taking and raping their women impeding procreation among the indigenous people as