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What are those astounding equipments advancing towards us? As the whites disembarked in our territory, these aliens gathered around a bizarre, godly man, who was riding a marvelous creature. As my tribe first glimpsed these people, we all taught that our god had heard our prayers and has come for our salvation and a stable life, but little did we know that these savage men came for our destruction. At first we praised and honored this “godly” man and his companions. The clan introduced our traditions, literature, and religious practices and permitted them trust, and as time flew by it revealed our vulnerabilities. When they acquired a chance, they struck and killed out chief, betraying this homecoming and nurturing tribe. Soon the tribe’s population decreased with a disease causing my people white, round, hurtful structures all over the skin causing their death. …show more content…
These whites or later did we know they were Spaniards, started constructing strange structures used as shelters and plantations. The savage men forced the tribe to perform rough labor in the plantations or were servants for the savages. Later, as my entire family was almost extinct, the Spaniards brought the colored people to replace my people. The tribe was so content and astonished for the arrival of the “god,” but as soon the Spaniards wrecked the walls of my defenseless people’s brains and imaginations, they brought terror and disaster. How can people after being offered food and shelter could be so cruel and inhumane, why did our god bring us this destruction, and what did we do to deserve such

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