The Conversation U.S. on Nostr: The Requerimiento: A bizarre legal document that Spanish colonizers used to justify ...
The Requerimiento: A bizarre legal document that Spanish colonizers used to justify violence against Indigenous peoples in the Americas. It offered a "choice" that was no choice at all.
(Some colonizers read the Requerimiento “to trees and empty huts” before drawing their swords.)
https://theconversation.com/accept-our-king-our-god-or-else-the-senseless-requirement-spanish-colonizers-used-to-justify-their-bloodshed-in-the-americas-223527
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(Some colonizers read the Requerimiento “to trees and empty huts” before drawing their swords.)
https://theconversation.com/accept-our-king-our-god-or-else-the-senseless-requirement-spanish-colonizers-used-to-justify-their-bloodshed-in-the-americas-223527
#IndigenousPeoplesDay