Nature Of Indians Summary

According to de Las Casas, the key characteristics of the Indians are simplest, obedient, faithful, humble, patient, peaceful and calm. In the article, he writes that, “God has created all these numberless people to be quite the simplest, without malice or duplicity, most obedient, most faithful to their natural Lords, and to the Christians, whom they serve; the most humble, most patient, most peaceful and calm, without strife nor tumults; not wrangling, nor querulous, as free from uproar, hate and desire of revenge as any in the world” (Cobbs. 8-9). He thinks that Indians are nonviolent people and they are faithful to their natural Lords as well as the Christians. For example, de Las Casas uses “gentle sheep” (Cobbs. 8-9) to describe the Indians in the article. …show more content…
He writes, “The Spaniards entered as soon as they knew them, like wolves, tigers and lions which had been starving for many days, and since forty years they have done nothing else” (Cobbs. 8-9). For example, “Th ey made a gallows just high enough for the feet to nearly touch the ground , and by thirteens. in honour and reverence of our Redeemer and the twelve Apostles, they put wood underneath and , with fire, they burned the Indians alive” (Cobbs. 8-9). I think de Las Casas wrote this to show that how cruel the Spaniards are and how inhumanly they treat the Indians. It has the power to remind people of what the history is. What happened before is extremely cruel and it shouldn’t happen in our future. For the question who was de Las Casas writing this for, he didn’t address anyone’s name in the article, so the person is unclear. However, I think de Las Casas might write for those Spaniards he mentioned in the article because in the second half of the article, he lists those cruel behavior that the Spaniards did to the Indians. “They generally killed the lords and nobles in the following