1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus is a ground-breaking study of the early Americas and Native Americans. ... " Later, Native Americans were massacred using this same belief and self-proclaimed land entitlement. ... Instead of what Europeans were used to, Natives cultivated plants differently and intensely and did not have many domesticated large work animals. ... A reason this title was intriguing from the rest of the list is because, for one, it was one of the only two books at the library, and two, information about Native peoples has become an interest of mine- both...

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This proved to be quite difficult as many of the natives held onto their cultural heritage with fierce resistance. The different native cultures included the Aztecs and Mayans as well as many smaller tribes. ... Aside from its primary goal of converting the native Americans, the church built schools and hospitals, provided nursing care for the elderly and mentally ill, and established church based schools to convert native American children to Christianity. ... They were still able to gain titles of nobility and typically able to obtain the best money could buy. ... Human sacrifice was replace...

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It may look today that the modern world doesn't revolve around the sun but around the natives of the America's inventions and societies. The natives are everywhere in regard to the modern world; from drinking a cola drink to Italian lasagna and sauces, from creating incredible wealth in the old world to creating the foundation of a nation in the new world, from the noses of cocaine users to the hands and machines in the surgeon rooms. ... All the way from the conquistadors to today, natives have been consistently exploited and forgotten. ... Because native Americans were not a greedy...

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