I De La Casas Analysis
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These traditional account make it clear that food was and still is an important part of life. The traditional account dictates to the reader that food is a source of life and it highlights the importance of food and nature, which makes food available. I think that the natives relied on stories like these to convey that message because it's memorable. Since the story is memorable it makes it easier to pass along orally and easier for children to understand. This story format make that concept attainable for all people not just the educated. His story in particular almost identically reflects the book of Genesis. Both accounts almost included something that only the earth can provide being incorporated into human. In Genesis, that is the clay and In this account that …show more content…
Some of the measure taken by De la Casas and the other priest might have been communication. They might have tried to take some sense into the men commuting this brutal acts, but this tactic was probably in effective. De la Casas and those who held similar beliefs probably hide and helped the Indians escape to the mountains, to safety. They might have also freed slaves from the midst of torture if they could. I am sure that people like De la Casas tried their best to reach out the people in leadership and power positions to make those gruesome acts illegal. I think it is completely logical to expect a priest or bishop, men of God, to stand up for the children of God. If priests and bishops truly believed in God and what they were preaching they would not let innocent children of God be slaughter and treated like less than human. Colonial records showed that many, including religious men had negative preconceptions about Amerindians and people of a darker complexion, because it was evil and the opposite of white and
These traditional account make it clear that food was and still is an important part of life. The traditional account dictates to the reader that food is a source of life and it highlights the importance of food and nature, which makes food available. I think that the natives relied on stories like these to convey that message because it's memorable. Since the story is memorable it makes it easier to pass along orally and easier for children to understand. This story format make that concept attainable for all people not just the educated. His story in particular almost identically reflects the book of Genesis. Both accounts almost included something that only the earth can provide being incorporated into human. In Genesis, that is the clay and In this account that …show more content…
Some of the measure taken by De la Casas and the other priest might have been communication. They might have tried to take some sense into the men commuting this brutal acts, but this tactic was probably in effective. De la Casas and those who held similar beliefs probably hide and helped the Indians escape to the mountains, to safety. They might have also freed slaves from the midst of torture if they could. I am sure that people like De la Casas tried their best to reach out the people in leadership and power positions to make those gruesome acts illegal. I think it is completely logical to expect a priest or bishop, men of God, to stand up for the children of God. If priests and bishops truly believed in God and what they were preaching they would not let innocent children of God be slaughter and treated like less than human. Colonial records showed that many, including religious men had negative preconceptions about Amerindians and people of a darker complexion, because it was evil and the opposite of white and