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Native American Conflict Analysis
The outcomes of interactions among various people have different results. The Natives and the Europeans spark conflict among each other that may not justify their actions. By examining documents that explain two sides on the topic of interactions and ideas on one another shows the sparking conflict on past stereotypes causing impact to each others lives. Perspectives are portrayed differently due to not having the same views or values on one another.
If people didn’t view the natives differently they would of treated them normal and think of them as equal. When cortes was on his conquest to find the new world, a native person spotted them. The native reported back to their chelf describing the corte’s crew physical features; “strange bodies completely covered,
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They had to “obliged to do to their highnesses .. to receive all the love and so the spanish would leave you,your wives,and your children, free with servitude just convert to our holy catholic faith.” (Council of the castile) And if they decided not to oblige they will “make war against you in all ways and matters that they could, taking you and your family and make them as slaves.”(Council of the castile) This was the idea spainsh had to justify their actions. As for the european people they took a different turn. They decided to “adopt their agriculture abandoned their nomadic ways and live in the villages”(38) but with some there first contact was different as the natives are to opening and simple minded as regards to the use of

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