In both primary documents Jean de Brébeuf’s Advice to Jesuit Missionaries in New France and the Spanish Monarchy’s Requerimiento describes the interactions and intentions on how to handle the Natives. The philosophies on how both to viewed the Native’s existing culture and traditions were vastly different. The French integrated and created alliances rather than the Spanish which segregated themselves from Native’s different cultures, threatened and extracted resources.
The document Requerimiento was issued by the Spanish Crown in 1513 and read to all natives that the conquistadors encountered. The document was a declaration of Spanish law to all that the Spanish would be taking over the territory. It required natives to recognize the Catholic Church, “as the ruler and superior of the whole world.” The Spanish even justified power to themselves and superiority of the conquest with “the Church as the ruler and superior of the whole world, and the high priest called Pope.” Then trickling the power from the Pope directed to “the King and Queen Doña Juana” who is now the “lords and kings of these islands.”
The document furthermore made an ultimatum threat to the natives either, agree and the natives would, “receive in all love …show more content…
The French saw the Natives as alliances that could be used as trade partners rather than objects. When Champlain founded Quebec, the French colony created networks of trade within Native communities that both the Native’s relied on and the French benefited from. Because of the respect that the French gave they were able to forge alliances that would benefit them in the numerous wars. The French used the Jesuits to live with the tribes in their villages instead of threatening to convert. Jesuits took the time to learn the traditions of the Algonquians and the Huron’s, as exhibited in the film “Black Robe.” A key difference between the
The document Requerimiento was issued by the Spanish Crown in 1513 and read to all natives that the conquistadors encountered. The document was a declaration of Spanish law to all that the Spanish would be taking over the territory. It required natives to recognize the Catholic Church, “as the ruler and superior of the whole world.” The Spanish even justified power to themselves and superiority of the conquest with “the Church as the ruler and superior of the whole world, and the high priest called Pope.” Then trickling the power from the Pope directed to “the King and Queen Doña Juana” who is now the “lords and kings of these islands.”
The document furthermore made an ultimatum threat to the natives either, agree and the natives would, “receive in all love …show more content…
The French saw the Natives as alliances that could be used as trade partners rather than objects. When Champlain founded Quebec, the French colony created networks of trade within Native communities that both the Native’s relied on and the French benefited from. Because of the respect that the French gave they were able to forge alliances that would benefit them in the numerous wars. The French used the Jesuits to live with the tribes in their villages instead of threatening to convert. Jesuits took the time to learn the traditions of the Algonquians and the Huron’s, as exhibited in the film “Black Robe.” A key difference between the