In the 17th century, majority of European regimes were all headed to a new land known as America with the objective of exploiting the new opportunities as well as for a better life. However, the Native Americans that had established a territory never allowed them in without an opposition. The fact that the Native Americans had divergent ways of life in terms of social, economic, and political alignments meant that the newcomers were treated differently (Pritzker, 5-7). It was without a doubt that the American Indians and European colonists interacted in a manner that would result to the formulation of various relationships among different cultures. From that rationale, that this paper would be endeavoring at …show more content…
The affiliation between them as never positive since the natives placed some blame on them for the various diseases that they were encountering as well as the forced conversions of a religion that they were not conversant. They were as well forced to adapt certain cultural values that they thought were foreign to them. Socially, the Spanish Southwest together with the above expound facts, they were imposing their culture on the natives with an aim of wiping out the Indian culture that they thought to be inferior (Sletcher, 108-112). Politically, both sides were trying to regain the territory through different means. For instance, while the Indians opted to kill the Spanish hoping that they would vacate their lands, the Spaniards were responding by creating a detachment among the pueblos hoping that the resistance would be weakened. Economically, the locals were denied the opportunity to become stable since the Europeans held that such a move would make them stable and thus, difficult to manipulate (Vaughan, 43-46). That saw a larger number of the native populace seeking jobs on the settles that was initially their homeland. It was intense to the point that the local were compelled to pay taxes to the local leader, and all those who were adamant to pay, they are on recorded to have been tortured to …show more content…
For instance, they were all lead by an expansionist objective not forgetting that they were intolerant to the natives (Pritzker, 5-7). The Aztecs, Mayans, and Incas were some of the people that were on record to have carried out evils that were recorded by the Spanish on the locals. By illustration, the natives are on record to have lost their feet during the Battle of Arizona in 1631, and that happened through the shopping of legs of all survivors of the war (Vaughan, 43-46). The art of slavery was as well perfected by the Spaniards something that played a major role in the violence that was conducted by the American Indians. Similar to the British, the Spaniards were forced into slave labor with the others being infected with strange diseases that were capable of finishing a whole