july 10th, 2006
read the relevant stuff from this article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/09/opinion/09horwitz.html?_r=1&th=&oref=slogin&emc=th&pagewanted=all
Juan de Oñate, the conquistador who colonized New Mexico, punished Pueblo Indians by cutting off their hands and feet and then enslaving them. Hernando de Soto bound Indians in chains and neck collars and forced them to haul his army's gear across the South. Natives were thrown to attack dogs and burned alive. ... Spanish brutality wasn't unique; English colonists committed similar atrocities. The Puritans were arguably more intolerant of natives than the Spanish and the Virginia colonists as greedy for gold as any conquistador.
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