Wednesday, August 13, 2008

SPEECH AGAINST THE SPANISH


WRITE QUOTE FROM MONTESINOS & WHY IS THAT THE MOST POWERFUL THING HE SAID.

''TELL ME, BY WHAT RIGHT OR JUSTICE DO YOU HOLD THESE INDIANS IN SUCH A CRUEL AND HORRIBLE SERVITUDE? ON WHAT AUTHORITY HAVE YOU WAGED SUCH DETESTABLE [AWFUL] WARS AGAINST THESE PEOPLE WHO DWELT[LIVED] SO QUIETLY AND PEEACEFULLY IN THEIR OWN LAND?... WHY DO YOU KEEP THEM SO OPPRESSED AND EXHAUSTED, WHITOUT GIVING THEM ENOUGH TO EAT OR CURING THEM OF THE SICKNESSES THEY INCUR[GET] FROM THE EXCESSIVE LABOR YOU GIVE THEM?.... ARE YOU NOT BOUND TO LOVE THEM AS YOU LOVE YOURSEVES? DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND THIS? DON'T YOU FEEL THIS?''

I THINK EVERYTHING HE SAID WAS THE MOST POWERFULTHING BECAUSE IT IS ALL TRUE WHAT HE IS SAYING,ABOUT WHAT THE SPANISH DID, HOW THEY WERE TREATED

MY LIFE AS A TAINO/NATIVE


JOURNAL AS IF YOU WERE A TAINO/NATIVE PERSON, WHAT IS HAPPENING ON YOUR ISLAND?
IF I WAS A NATIVE PERSON THE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING IS THAT A LOT OF SPANISH WERE TAKEING OVER. A LOT OF NATIVE WERE DIEING. THEY WERE TREATING US BAD LIKE IF WE WERE NOT HUMAN LIKE SOME TYPE OF ANIMAL.
EVERYONE WAS DIEING ONE AFTER ANOTHER,BECAUSE THEY WON'T LET THEM EAT,WORK TELL THEY DIE, SMALL POXS,AND THEM JUST KILLING THEM. IT WAS A NICE ISLAND BEFOR THE SPANISH CAME. THEY HAD DISORED IT