I Forget

I Forget

Matthew Navarro 9-17-08 Pd. 2 Mr. Louis Essay #1 The French and Spanish both did kill Indians for money and land. They both did treat them unlike they would treat their own group of people. The difference is two things, the difference in area and what was in the area. The Spanish mainly came for gold in the southern areas of the New World. The French came to expand of fishing and fur trades (which is something to expand on economically) in the northern area of the New World. They both did come for economic and exploration purposes but their views on the Indians were much different, it could be the different kind of tribes that they met with or it could be the way the Spanish and French viewed these groups of people. The Spanish had viewed the Indians in such a bitter way, Howard Zinn calls this massacre of the Indians “genocide”. The Spanish only wanted gold and they came for only gold in the first place and they would do nothing but make the Indians suffer until they get what they want and get the amount that they want. They tortured women and children; they took in some of the Indians and used them as slaves. They’d cut of an Indians’ hand if they wouldn’t get any gold for them. The Spanish treated them nothing like they would treat their own people and that was because they didn’t even view the Indians and human, but as animals so they hunted them down like animals to get what they want, and that was valuables such as gold. The French treated the Indians more human-like and for the most part, the Indians liked that kind of respect and helped out the French when they needed it, that doesn’t go to say that the French didn’t kill the Indians because that obviously had happened. For the most part, the French treated them well to the point that they were able to trade things such as fur with them and even go fishing along with the Indians. The Indians respected that to the point that when it came to the Seven Years War, the Indians helped them out in the...

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