Topiltzin, who is the illegitimate son of the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma, survives the onslaught by burying himself under a stack of bodies. As if awakening from a dream, the young man rises from among the dead to find his mother murdered, the Spanish in power and the
In 1609 John Ratcliffe is captured and killed by Indian women. Colonist were afraid to leave and hunt in fear that they would be attacked by the Indians. As retaliation in 1613 Pocahontas is captured and held as a prisoner by the Colonist. She converted to Christianity and was trded back to her people in exchange for food. By 1622 The Indian Massacre occurred and they Indians killed over 300 colonist.
Maguey cactus juice – given to sacrificial victims. | | Aztecs | Incas | Econmiendas = to entrust. Spanish needed to encourage immigration to the Americas + control newly conquered land. First established in Hispaniola in May 1493. Spanish colonies [conquistadores, minor nobles, notable natives] given land +Natives [max 300].
Buffalo Soldiers (1997) Movie Review The story begins with the sad image of white Texas Rangers stringing up innocent Apache children in hopes of gathering information about Indian chief Victorio. This scene reminded me of the KKK lynching blacks. Luckily, the Buffalo Soldiers arrive in time to save the day and apprehend the rangers. The movie starts in the New Mexico Territory, ex-slave First Sergeant Wyatt (Danny Glover) and the Buffalo soldiers arrest Captain Draper and other Texas Rangers for the murder of the Indian children and trespassing on federal protected land, Captain Draper sets the tone with a nigger comment to First Sergeant Wyatt right before they take the Rangers into custody. Captain Draper would not have disrespected at white soldier but this movie takes place shortly after the end of the Civil War, when former slaves were given their freedom.
Before the Civil War era, Columbus’ conquests for new lands lead to the genocide and enslavement of Arawak people who were obedient towards Columbus and his men. This quote from Howard Zinn, “Trying to put together an army of resistance, the Arawaks faced Spaniards who had armor, muskets, swords, horses. When the Spaniards took prisoners they hanged them or burned them to death. Among the Arawaks, mass suicides began, with cassava poison. Infants were killed to save them from the Spaniards.
However, when it became clear that defeat was imminent, they retreated further to the mountainous region of Vilcabamba, where the Manco Inca continued to hold some power for several more decades. His son, Túpac Amaru, was the last Inca. After deadly confrontations, he was murdered by the Spanish in 1572. The Spaniards destroyed almost every Inca building in Cuzco,[citation needed] built a Spanish city over the old foundations, and proceeded to colonize and exploit the former
Men, women and children scared, running for their lives. Watching their village destroyed and their fellow tribe’s men and women killed. In the middle of all this there is Tobias, he is part of this raid, he does nothing to try to stop it. He goes along with it, at one point even allows a fellow Arakmbut to put a spear in his hand and guides him as they both in what seems to be like some kind of initiation or ritualistic sorts, puts the head of the spear into a dead man’s body. After living with them for seven months this seemed to be the final passage, he is finally taken the final step to becoming one of them.
Montezuma was then placed by a battlement of the roof and told his people that if they refrained from the war, the Spanish would leave Mexico. The Aztecs then tell Montezuma that they have chosen a new Lord and that the war would continue on until all the Spanish were dead. Stones were thrown that end up hitting Montezuma in the head resulting in his death three days later. (Burkholder and Johnson p. 309-310) The Aztecs were done listening to Montezuma being influenced by the Spanish with their empty
Retrieved from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_peso_crisis NYTimes. (1995) US Bailout of Mexico Verging On Success or Dramatic Failure. Retrieved from: http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/02/business/us-bailout-of-mexico-verging-on-success-or-dramatic-failure.html?pagewanted=all Harvard EDU. (2012) Mexico’s financial crisis of 1994-1995. Retrieved from: https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/9056792/12-101.pdf?sequence=1 Encyclopedia.
Spanish priests enter the South American jungle to build a mission and convert a community of Guarani Indians to Christianity. The first belief was challenged when transformation of a one of the main hero Rodrigo Mendoza took place. At the beginning of the movie he is a mercenary and slaver who make his living kidnapping Guaranis and other indigenous people and selling them to the nearby plantations. A crossing point in his life happens when he finds his brother in bed with his fiancée. He kills his brother in a fight and then goes into guilt and depression over what he has done while in the