Greed and Redemption
Settlers to the new world saw the american as an infinite supply of resources that could be tapped into to further their home country. Ever since the first step onto American soil by the settlers was driven by greed. Indians and their land were perceived as undeveloped, and uncivilized for this reason settlers treated the indians as a lower class than themselves. With this in mind the treatment of the indians, and their lands were driven by the need for Crown’s to grow their vast financial and religious capital. The greed of those who came to America ended in the collapse of relations with the natives.
The first major mistake in creating positive relationships with the Native Americans was being prepared to try to make …show more content…
This conversion of faith was not greeted with grateful delight the settlers might have thought a savage people would portray when confronted with being saved, but rather angry rebellion. The building of religious capital started in 1524 a group of Franciscan friars, representatives for the twelve apostles, set up a meeting with the high ranking Priests, and political leaders to talk about converting from their beliefs to Christianity (OTP S1-5). The friars, like many of the religious leaders, did not recognize the Native Americans faith as legitimate believing that the Indians were inferior to the settlers for believing in false gods. The indians were said to “not recognize the being who is everywhere”, and that their old “gods are not true gods”, but the indians argued that the new words of the settlers were nothing compared to the generations of heritage, and tradition that made up the “laws” of survival that the indians worship(OTP, S1-5). The main conflict with the conversion of the indians to their new faith, would not be following a new god, but forgetting the old, “will we be the ones to destroy the ancient traditions of the Chichimeca, the Tolteca, the Colhuaca, the Tepaneca?”(OTP, S1-6). Even if the new generations were to dismiss their heritage “how will the poor old men, the poor old woman, forget or erase their upbringing , their education”(OTP,
Settlers to the new world saw the american as an infinite supply of resources that could be tapped into to further their home country. Ever since the first step onto American soil by the settlers was driven by greed. Indians and their land were perceived as undeveloped, and uncivilized for this reason settlers treated the indians as a lower class than themselves. With this in mind the treatment of the indians, and their lands were driven by the need for Crown’s to grow their vast financial and religious capital. The greed of those who came to America ended in the collapse of relations with the natives.
The first major mistake in creating positive relationships with the Native Americans was being prepared to try to make …show more content…
This conversion of faith was not greeted with grateful delight the settlers might have thought a savage people would portray when confronted with being saved, but rather angry rebellion. The building of religious capital started in 1524 a group of Franciscan friars, representatives for the twelve apostles, set up a meeting with the high ranking Priests, and political leaders to talk about converting from their beliefs to Christianity (OTP S1-5). The friars, like many of the religious leaders, did not recognize the Native Americans faith as legitimate believing that the Indians were inferior to the settlers for believing in false gods. The indians were said to “not recognize the being who is everywhere”, and that their old “gods are not true gods”, but the indians argued that the new words of the settlers were nothing compared to the generations of heritage, and tradition that made up the “laws” of survival that the indians worship(OTP, S1-5). The main conflict with the conversion of the indians to their new faith, would not be following a new god, but forgetting the old, “will we be the ones to destroy the ancient traditions of the Chichimeca, the Tolteca, the Colhuaca, the Tepaneca?”(OTP, S1-6). Even if the new generations were to dismiss their heritage “how will the poor old men, the poor old woman, forget or erase their upbringing , their education”(OTP,