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Native Americans

Historias que no son todavía historia

The histories of the native peoples of Mexico are inappropriately termed "histories": they are not yet complete, though Europeans have thought them so since the eve of colonization.
When Europeans first came to the Americas they saw the landscape, opportunities and inhabitants through their own presuppositions, derived from the Middle Ages and, for the Spaniards, the recent unification of all Spain into one nation. The Spaniards wanted to and succeeded in including the Americas in their plans of a more global unification under Spain.
In order to achieve this goal, the Spaniards found they must conquer the native peoples both physically and ideologically. Colonial domination requires more than the use of force, both the oppressor and the oppressed must eventually believe in moral justifications of superiority and inferiority to the extent that no one challenges the new social order. Colonists convinced themselves and the natives that the......


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